Frederick Stuart Church - A Dissertation upon Roast Pig Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia

A Dissertation upon Roast Pig (Charles Lamb's 'Essays of Elia')

Frederick Stuart Church's original etching, "A Dissertation upon Roast Pig" is printed upon fine hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as commissioned and published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York in 1884. This impression is signed and dated by Church in the plate to the lower left. The English author and essayist, Charles Lamb (1775-1834) first published his "Essays of Elia" in 1823. In 1884 the New York firm of 'G. P. Putnam's Sons' issued a new edition. For this new edition, the publisher commissioned original etchings from such distinguished American artists as Frederick Church, Charles Adams Platt, James D. Smillie and Robert Swain Gifford. This original etching in sepia by F. S. Church entitled, "A Dissertation upon Roast Pig" hails from this source.

A Dissertation upon Roast Pig Original Etching in Sepia by the American artist Frederick Stuart Church Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia

A Dissertation upon Roast Pig (Charles Lamb's 'Essays of Elia')

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Frederick Stuart Church (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1842 - New York, 1924)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Source	Notes	-
01-		A Dissertation upon Roast Pig by Frederick Stuart Church	Original Etching in Sepia	1883 (Published, 1884)	Charles Lamb's the "Essays of Elia	Signed and dated by Frederick Stuart Church in the plate to the lower left.	Available
02.-		Mercury by Frederick Stuart Church	Original Miniature Etching	1884	The Hawthorne Portfolio: A Wonder Book	Signed and titled by Frederick Stuart Church in the plate, India Proof impression, edition of 125.	Sold
03.-		Pandora by Frederick Stuart Church	Original Etching in Sepia	1884	The Hawthorne Portfolio: A Wonder Book	Signed and titled in the plate by Frederick Stuart Church, India Proof impression, edition of 125.	Sold
04.-		The Mermaid by Frederick Stuart Church	Original Etching and Aquatint	1880	The American Art Review	Signed and titled in the plate by Frederick Stuart Church.	Sold
05.-		The Puritan Girl by Frederick Stuart Church	Original Miniature Etching	1884	The Hawthorne Portfolio: The House of the Seven Gables	India Proof impression, edition of 125.	Sold
06.-		The Snow Image by Frederick Stuart Church	Original Etching	1884	The Hawthorne Portfolio: The Snow Image	Signed and titled in the plate by Frederick Stuart Church, India Proof impression, edition of 125.	Sold

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Charles Lamb's the "Essays of Elia"
#	Image	Title & Artist	Artist Info	Medium	Date	-
01.-		A Dissertation upon Roast Pig by Frederick Stuart Church	Frederick Stuart Church 'F. S. Church' (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1842 - New York, 1924)	Original Etching in Sepia	1883 (Published, 1884)
02.-		Blakesmoor by Robert Swain Gifford	Robert Swain Gifford 'Robert Gifford' (Nonamesset, Mass., 1840 - New York, 1905)	Original Etching and Drypoint	1883 (Published, 1884)
03.-		Detached Thoughts on Books by James David Smillie	James David Smillie 'J. D. Smillie' (New York City, 1833 - 1909)	Original Etching	1883 (Published, 1884)	Sold
04.-		Inner Temple Lane by Charles Adams Platt	Charles Adams Platt 'Charles Platt' (New York City, 1861 - 1933)	Original Etching with Plate Tone	1883 (Published, 1884)	Sold
05.-		Oxford by Charles Adams Platt	Charles Adams Platt 'Charles Platt' (New York City, 1861 - 1933)	Original Etching with Plate Tone	1883 (Published, 1884)	Sold
06.-		The Sun Dial by James David Smillie	James David Smillie 'J. D. Smillie' (New York City, 1833 - 1909)	Original Etching	1883 (Published, 1884)	Sold
07.-		Westminster Abbey by Charles Adams Platt	Charles Adams Platt 'Charles Platt' (New York City, 1861 - 1933)	Original Etching with Plate Tone	1883 (Published, 1884)	Sold

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Title:	A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
Artist:	Church, Frederick Stuart (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1842 - New York, 1924)
Date:	1883 (Published, 1884)
Medium:	Original Etching in Sepia
Publisher:	G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Source:	Charles Lamb's 'Essays of Elia'
	Frederick Stuart Church: A major nineteenth century painter and etcher of figurative and fantasy scenes, Frederick Stuart Church first served as a soldier in the Civil War. He fought in many campaigns and served under General Sherman in his march to the sea. After the conclusion of the war, Frederick Church studied art at the Chicago Academy of Design, the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League, New York. F. S. Church began his career as an illustrator for Harper's and received his first commissions for painting in 1875. After that point he dedicated himself to both painting and etching. In the latter category he enjoyed much success and some of his etchings were commissioned by the influential Paris publisher, L'Art.
	In many respects Frederick Church's art of the 1880's serves as a precursor to the American Art Nouveau movement of the 1890's. His fantasy scenes (particularly those dealing with women, children and animals) exhibit the graceful imagery and long, flowing lines that were to become dominant elements of Art Nouveau.
	F. S. Church was a full member of the American Water Color Society, the New York Etching Club, and the Society of Illustrators. He was elected a full Academician of the National Academy in 1885. Examples of Frederick Church's fine art are found in many important collections, such as the National Museum of American Illustration, Denver Art Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Brandywine River Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Newark Museum, Museum of New Mexico, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
	"Essays of Elia": The English author and essayist, Charles Lamb (1775-1834) first published his "Essays of Elia" in 1823. In 1884 the New York firm of Putnam's issued a new edition. For this new edition the publisher commissioned original etchings from such distinguished American artists as Frederick Stuart Church, Charles Adams Platt, James D. Smillie and Robert Swain Gifford. Frederick Stuart Church's A "Dissertation upon Roast Pig" hails from this source.
	"The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting or rather broiling (which I take to be the elder brother) was accidentally discovered in the manner following: The swineherd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son, Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as younkers of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian makeshift of a building, you may think it), what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished. China pigs have been esteemed a luxury all over the East, from the remotest periods that we read of. Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches, and the labor of an hour or two, at any time, as for the loss of the pigs. While he was thinking what he should say to father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from? -- not from the burnt cottage, -- he had smelt that smell before, -- indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip. He knew not what to think. He next stooped down to feel the pig, if there were any signs of life in it. He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted -- crackling!. Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn him so much now, still he licked his fingers from a sort of habit. The truth at length broke into his slow understanding, that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious; and surrendering himself up to the new-born pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh next it, and was cramming it down his throat in his beastly fashion, when his sire entered amid the smoking rafters, armed with retributory cudgel, and finding how affairs stood, began to rain blows upon the young rogue's shoulders, as thick as hailstones, which Bo-bo heeded not any more than if they had been flies." Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
Size:	4 1/4 X 6 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed upon fine hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as commissioned and published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York in 1884. Signed and dated by Church in the plate to the lower left. A finely printed impression with full sepia plate tone and in excellent condition throughout. "A Dissertation upon Roast Pig" represents a prime, original example of the influential nineteenth century fantasy art of Frederick Stuart Church.
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