George Loring Brown

View in the Campagna ('A Group of Ilex Trees near Rome')

George Loring Brown produced an important series of nine original etchings between 1853 and 1859, which were first published in a small edition in New York in 1860 under the title of, Etchings of the Campagna, Rome. View in the Campagna is the third of these nine etchings. In The American Art Review, 1881, Sylvester Rosa Koehler published a complete listing of George Loring Brown's etchings. He noted that the German publisher, Zeitschrift fur bildende Kunst, secured permission to print a small number of impressions of View in the Campagna in 1871. *

Finally, in 1883, the Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, Boston, held a large exhibition of contemporary American art which emphasized etchings and drawings. View in the Campagna was included in this exhibition under the title of A Group of Ilex Trees near Rome. Impressions of this third and final state were printed in New York by G. W. H. Ritchie, and bear his address along the lower margin. Impressions of all three states are very scarce.

* Sylvester Rosa Koehler, The American Art Review, Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1881, Vol. II, Second Division, p. 192.

Original etching by the 19th century American artist, George Loring Brown.

View in the Campagna ('A Group of Ilex Trees near Rome')

Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Exhibition 1883.

1883 Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
#	Image	Title & Artist	Artist Info	Medium	Date
01.-		A Family of Quacks by Charles Volkmar	Charles Volkmar (Baltimore, 1841 - Metuchen, New Jersey, 1914)	Original Etching with Plate Tone	c. 1883
02.-		A Southern California Glen by Henry Chapman Ford	Henry C. Ford 'Henry Chapman Ford' (Livonia, New York, 1828 - Santa Barbara, California, 1894)	Original Etching	c. 1882	Sold
03.-		A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky Proclaim it a Hunting Morning by Thomas Moran	Thomas Moran (Bolton, England, 1837 - Santa Barbara, CA, 1926)	Original Etching	c. 1882
04.-		A Summer Afternoon by Henry Webster Rice	Henry Webster Rice 'Henry W. Rice' (Pownal, Maine, 1853 - Watertown, Massachusetts, 1934)	Original Etching	c. 1883
05.-		Artillery Sergeant by William Henry Shelton	William Henry Shelton (Allen's Hill, NY., 1840 - Morristown, NY., 1932)	Original Etching	c. 1883
06.-		Building an Elevator by James Craig Nicol	James Craig Nicoll (New York City, 1847 - Norwalk, Connecticut, 1918)	Original Etching with Plate Tone	1881
07.-		Drifting by Stephen Parrish	Stephen Parrish (Philadelphia, 1846 - Cornish, N. H., 1938)	Original Etching	c. 1883
08.-		Feeding Sheep by John Austin Sands Monks	John Austin Sands Monks (Cold Spring-on-Hudson, NY, 1850 - Chicago, 1917)	Original Etching	1883
09.-		From Under the Trees by George W. H. Ritchie (George Wistar Hodge Ritchie)	George Wistar Hodge Ritchie 'George W. H. Ritchie' (New York City, Active 1870 - 1900)	Original Etching	1883
10.-		Head of an Old Man by Joseph Lauber	Joseph Lauber (Meschede, Westphalia, Germany, 1855 - New York City, 1948)	Original Etching	1881
11.-		Naponock (Naponoch) Scenery, Ulster County, New York by William Hart	William M. Hart 'William Hart' (Paisley, Scotland, 1823 - Mount Vernon, New York, 1894)	Original Etching	c. 1883
12.-		Near Annasquam (Annisquam) by Albion Harris Bicknell	Albion Harris Bicknell 'A. H. Bicknell' (Turner, Maine, 1837 - Malden, Massachusetts, 1915)	Original Etching	c. 1883
13.-		Now Come Still Evening On by Henry Farrer	Henry Farrer (London, England, 1843 - Brooklyn, New York, 1903)	Original Etching	1882 - 1883
14.-		Partegat Pond by Benjamin Lander	Benjamin Lander (New York City, 1844 - ?)	Original Etching	1882 - 1883	Sold
15.-		Street at Honfleur, France by Charles Platt	Charles Adams Platt 'Charles Platt' (New York City, 1861 - 1933)	Original Etching	1882
16.-		The Mill by Robert Crannell Minor	Robert Crannell Minor 'Robert C. Minor' (New York City, 1839 - Waterford, Connecticut, 1904)	Original Etching & Drypoint	c. 1883	Sold
17.-		View in the Campagna ('A Group of Ilex Trees near Rome') by George Loring Brown	George Loring Brown (Boston, 1814 - Malden, Massachusetts, 1889)	Original Etching	1854 (Third & Final State: 1883)	Sold

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Title:	View in the Campagna ('A Group of Ilex Trees near Rome')
Artist:	Brown, George Loring (Boston, 1814 - Malden, Massachusetts, 1889)
Date:	1854 (Third and Final State: 1883)
Medium:	Original Etching
Printer:	George Wistar Hodge Ritchie
Note:	George Loring Brown: A fine mid-nineteenth century American landscape artist, George Loring Brown holds the distinction of being one of the earliest American painters to treat etching as an original and vital form of artistic expression. At the age of twelve Brown was apprenticed to a Boston wood engraver. He later studied art under Washington Allston and began to exhibit his paintings in the United States at the age of twenty-three. George Loring Brown then moved to France to complete his studies under Eugene Isabey. From Isabey, who was a great lithographer as well as a painter, Brown received his first instructions in the creative possibilities of the graphic arts. For a twenty year period (1839-1859), George Loring Brown lived and worked in Florence and Rome. Both his paintings and etchings of Italian landscapes became very well known in America and are today in the collections of such major institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His etchings, in particular, were highly regarded for their delicacy and detail. George Loring Brown's American contemporaries, in fact, began calling him, 'Claude Brown', because his idealized Italian scenes were reminiscent of the 17th century landscapes of Claude Lorrain.
	In 1883 the Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, Boston, held a major exhibition of contemporary American art. Concentrating largely upon American drawings and etchings the exhibition catalogue listed 731 works of original art. George Loring Brown's original etching, View in the Campagna, was included in this exhibition and bears the catalogue number, 117. *
	* Frank T. Robinson (Art Director), Catalogue of the Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, Boston, Charles, Upham & Company, 1883, Catalogue #117.
Size:	6 X 8 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon fine, hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as printed by G. W. H. Ritchie in New York in 1883. Signed in the plate to the lower left, “G. L. Brown, Roma, 1854”, and bearing the printer’s address along the lower center margin. A finely printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. View in the Campagna represents both a scarce and important, original example of the etched art of George Loring Brown.
Subject:	George Loring Brown, View in the Campagna, A Group of Ilex Trees near Rome, original etching, ‘Claude Brown’, American Etchings of the Nineteenth Century, G. W. H. Ritchie, Sylvester Rosa Koehler.
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