A Farm Yard
Engraved and published by Robert Havell Jr. American, born England
After William Havell British
Not on view
Meticulously colored by hand, this print depicts two men in a barnyard filled with cows and pigs, a reflective pool of water, and distant hills above the thatched-roofed buildings. The palette conveys the effects of bright sunlight contrasted with deep shadows. William Havell was a self-taught landscape painter and founder member of the Old Water-Colour Society, at this time attempting to establish himself as a serious landscape painter in oils. His imagery likely responds to his native region, near Reading in England's Thames Valley. A younger relative made the print.
