Beautiful 1800s JOHN GRAHAM LOUGH Engraving "Midsummer Night's Dream" Framed COA

Description: --> Four Centuries of the world's finest artists from our collection to yours --> Thank you for visiting... Click here for HOT DEALS | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about this work and we will answer promptly.International bidders are always welcome to bid and we combine shipping on all orders. --> Artist: John Graham Lough (English, 1798-1876) Title: Night's Swift Dragons cut the Clouds Full Fast Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original bas relief by master engraver William Callio Roffe (British, 1817 - 1894 or after). Year: 1870Condition: ExcellentDimensions: Image Size 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Framed dimensions: Approximately 16 x 16 inches. Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials. Additional notes: This is not a modern print. This engraving is more than 145 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. Extra Information:This very beautiful and poetic composition, in the form of a large medallion, was suggested by a line in the Midsummer Night's Dream, in a colloquy between Oberon and Puck, where the former gives the latter instructions to perform a certain act; to which Puck replies, “My fairy lord, this must be done with haste, For night's swift dragous cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all, That in cross-ways and floods have burial, Already to their wormy beds are gone; For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They wilfully themselves exile from light, And must for aye consort with black-browed night.” Act III., sc. 2. Artist Biography:John Graham Lough was an English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture. He also produced ideal classical male and female figures. John Graham Lough was born at Black Hedley Hall near Consett, County Durham, one of eleven children, and may have worked as a farmer in his youth. He was later apprenticed to a stonemason, at Shotley Field near Newcastle upon Tyne. Lough came to London by sea in 1824 to study the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum. He took lodgings in a first floor in Burleigh Street, above a greengrocer's shop, and there commenced to mould his colossal statue of Milo of Croton based on his studies of the Elgin marbles and the work of Michelangelo. He became the protégé of the painter Benjamin Haydon, and in 1827 he exhibited the statue. (A later 1863 bronze version survives at Blagdon, Northumberland). It so impressed London society that it brought him scores of patrons and established his career. He began exhibiting ideal figures and heads at the Royal Academy from 1826. Between 1834-38, he spent a period in Rome where his portrait style was influenced by Neo-classicism. Lough received a provisional commission to carve four granite lions for the base of Nelson's Column. However, in 1846, after consultations with the column's designer, William Railton, he withdrew from the project, unwilling to work under the constraints imposed by the architect. The commission was later given to Edwin Landseer who, with assistance from the sculptor Carlo Marochetti, carried out the work in bronze, finally completing it in 1867. He was a close friend of the surgeon Campbell De Morgan who sat with Lough as he lay dying of pneumonia. A bust of De Morgan by Lough was given to the Middlesex Hospital medical school and is on display there. Lough is buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London. One of his younger brothers, Thomas, was a talented musician, artist, and poet, best known for "The Ramshaw Flood" (1848), but declined into vagrancy and poverty, dying at Lanchester Workhouse only a year after John Graham's death. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described Framing Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. Please contact us for pricing. We are usually half the price of a regular framer. Shipping Packages are shipped the next business day after confirmed payment is received. If you are making multiple purchases, please request an invoice so that we may combine shipping charges for you. Guarantee We guarantee all our listings to be 100% as described Returns Returns are accepted up to fourteen days after receiving your purchase. Buyer accepts responsibility for any additional shipping charges. | Click here for HOT DEALS | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS |

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Location: Cape Coral, Florida

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