Study for Tree Trunks and Lane, ca. 1812, Graphite, soft ground etching on the verso, Sheet: 8 1/8 x 6 3/8 in. (20.7 x 16.1 cm), Drawings, John Crome (British, Norwich 1768–1821 Norwich), 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
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