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Edward Purcell - The Mourning Family

The Mourning Family

Edward Purcell's lithograph, "The Mourning Family" depicts a woman and her two young children mourning over the tombstone of her husband and their father. Their gestures are of extreme grief and loss.

This original lithograph was designed and drawn by the British lithographic artist, Edward Purcell. It is printed upon early 19th century wove paper and is signed by Purcell in the stone as published for "Sketches in Lithography" by Thomas McLean in 1822.

Title:	The Mourning Family
Artist:	Purcell, Edward (Dublin and London, Active c. 1810 - 1830)
Date:	1822
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Publisher:	Thomas McLean, London
Note:	Edward Purcell was an early British lithographic artist. It is believed he was born and trained in Dublin. By 1820 he was working in London and produced such lithographic sets as "Lithographic Costumes of Russia and Persia" (1821) and "Sporting Sketches" (1824), after Henry Alken. This original lithograph entitled, "The Mourning Family" hails from a series published by Thomas McLean in London in 1822 under the title of "Sketches in Lithography, Containing Forty Original Subjects, Designed and Drawn by E. Purcell". For their time these lithographs are possibly unique, in that they portray figures and subjects not seen in British lithography. Topography is supplanted in favour of rustic scenes and fanciful themes.
	The birth of artistic lithography in Britain dates from a 1803 undertaking entitled "Specimens of Polyautography". Major British artists were persuaded by the publisher, Phillip Andre, to create original drawings upon the lithographic stone. The complete set of twelve original lithographs included important contributions by such artists as Benjamin West, James Barry, Thomas Stothard and Henry Fuseli. Yet the set was an economic failure and lithography almost ceased in England until about 1820 when such fine watercolourists as Samuel Prout, William Westall and J. D. Harding saw in this new art a viable method to publish and distribute their topographical views of both Europe and Britain. Apart from topographical art, however, British artists of the first rank continued to neglect lithography until the later 1820's, when exposure to such great French lithographers as Gericault and Delacroix elevated the medium to fine art.
Source:	Sketches in Lithography
Size:	8 1/2 X 10 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon early nineteenth century wove paper as published for Sketches in Lithography in 1822. Signed by the artist in the stone along the lower right margin. Very faint foxing or staining is apparent in the outer margins else a finely printed impression and in good condition throughout. "The Mourning Family" represents a prime, original example of the art of Edward Purcell and of early nineteenth century British lithography.
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Original Lithograph by the British artist, Edward Purcell

The Mourning Family by Edward Purcell

# 5.- The Mourning Family

View other original lithographs by Edward Purcell
published for "Sketches in Lithography" by Thomas McLean.

Edward Purcell (Dublin and London, Active c. 1810 - 1830)
#	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-	A Boy and his Dog by Edward Purcell	Original Lithograph	1822	Depicts a seated boy and his pet in the foreground. In the background we see cattle and a woman carrying water.	Sold
02.-	A Shepherd and his Flock by Edward Purcell	Original Lithograph	1822	Constructed in an oval format. The flock of sheep occupy the foreground while the shepherd with his dog sit on a shady rise in the background.	Sold
03.-	A Wayfarer on a Windy Day by Edward Purcell	Original Lithograph	1822	Depicts an elderly man and his dog. Behind them a gust of wind bends a tree. Cattle patiently endure the storm in the background.	Sold
04.-	After the Battle by Edward Purcell	Original Lithograph	1822	Depicts a warrior dressed in either Persian or Arabian garb. Seated upon the stones of a ruin his distraught posture indicates that the day's struggle ended in defeat.	Sold
05.-	The Mourning Family by Edward Purcell	Original Lithograph	1822	Depicts a woman and her two young children mourning over the tombstone of her husband and their father. Their gestures are of extreme grief and loss.	Sold
06.-	Young Couple at a Fountain by Edward Purcell	Original Lithograph	1822	A pastoral scene depicting a meeting of a traveller and a beautiful woman. Both have stopped at the fountain to fill their water containers yet their gazes indicate that their thirsts will not be quenched by water alone.	Sold
07.-	Young Woman at a Well by Edward Purcell	Original Lithograph	1822	Designed in an oval format the composition depicts the woman in the foreground while a horseman -- a potential suitor -- appears in the background.	Sold

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