Front of the New Mills, Norwich, from "Norfolk Picturesque Scenery"
Crome uses rustic buildings lining a stream to celebrate his native county of Norfolk. Largely self-taught, the artist combines intense natural observation with lessons learned from paintings by Gainsborough and Hobbema. A founder and leader of the Norwich School (artists based in that town who developed a distinct local style), Crome worked in oils and as a drawing master, then became one of the first 19th-century Britons to use etching as an expressive tool. Prints made between 1809 and 1813, based on plein-air sketches, anticipate the Etching Revival. Unpublished during Crome's lifetime, sets titled "Norfolk Picturesque Scenery, Consisting of Thirty-One Etchings" were first issued in 1834 to benefit his widow.
Artwork Details
- Title: Front of the New Mills, Norwich, from "Norfolk Picturesque Scenery"
- Series/Portfolio: Norfolk Picturesque Scenery, Consisting of Thirty-One Etchings by the Late John Crome, founder of the Norwich Society of Artists, and Printed from the Plates as Left by Himself
- Artist: John Crome (British, Norwich 1768–1821 Norwich)
- Date: 1813–34
- Medium: Etching on chine collé; first state of three
- Dimensions: Chine collé: 8 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (22.2 × 29.8 cm)
Plate: 9 1/16 × 12 1/16 in. (23 × 30.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 9/16 × 19 1/2 in. (34.5 × 49.5 cm) - Classifications: Prints, Albums
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
- Object Number: 26.72.223(8)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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