Study for Tree Trunks and Lane

John Crome

ca. 1812 · Graphite, soft ground etching on the verso · Drawings and Prints

Crome made this drawing to create a soft-ground etching, using it to transfer the image to a printing plate. A leader of the Norwich School (artists based near that Norfolk town who developed a distinctive local landscape style), the artist was one of the first in 19th-century Britain to use etching as an expressive medium, anticipating the Etching Revival.

Artist

John Crome

Date

ca. 1812

Medium

Graphite, soft ground etching on the verso

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926