David Law

Dittisham on the Dart

David Law's original etching, "Dittisham on the Dart" is printed on 19th century wove paper and with full margins as published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin for the Magazine of Art in London IN 1893. This impression is signed in the plate by the artist to the lower right and bears the publisher's address and title under the etching. "Dittisham on the Dart" is a fine, original example of the landscape art of created by the British artist, David Law.

Original Etching by the British artist, David Law.

Dittisham on the Dart

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Title:	Dittisham on the Dart
Artist:	Law, David (Edinburgh, 1831 - Worthing, 1901)
Date:	1893
Medium:	Original Etching
Publisher:	Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Source:	Magazine of Art, London
Note:	David Law: A nineteenth century painter, watercolourist and etcher, David Law was apprenticed to a steel engraver at an early age. In 1845 he was admitted into the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, where he studied under Alexander Christie and Emslie Dallas for the following five years. In 1851, David Law gained employment in the Ordinance Survey Office and engraved maps for the following twenty years.
	At the age of over forty David Law decided to dedicate himself completely to artistic pursuits and came to London. By 1873 he was exhibiting his art at many major institutions, including the Royal Academy. David Law was an original Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, Royal Society of British Artists and the Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colour.
	David Law became most famous for landscape etchings, particularly river views of the Thames and elsewhere. A number of his etchings were commissioned by the leading art journals of the day. Such is the case with Dittisham on the Dart, which was published by the Magazine of Art, London. The Magazine of Art (founded 1878) was a late nineteenth and early twentieth century annual dealing with contemporary art, both at home and abroad. Most of its annual volumes contained an original etching by a leading British artist, inserted as a frontis-piece.
Source:	Magazine of Art, London
Size:	7 1/2 X 11 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed on 19th century wove paper and with full margins as published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin for the Magazine of Art IN 1893. Signed in the plate by the artist to the lower right and bearing the publisher's address and title under the etching. Containing several small crease marks (from printing pressure) else a finely printed impression and in good condition throughout. Dittisham on the Dart represents a prime, original example of the landscape art of David Law.
Subject:	David Law, Magazine of Art, Dittisham on the Dart British landscape art, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, Cassell, Petter & Galpin.
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