Heading Home I and II
Robert Hills
- Savvy Price $175.00
- Gallery Price $250.00
- Title
- Heading Home I and II
- Artist
- Robert Hills
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Plate size
- 7 1/4" height X 9 3/4" width
- Frame
- Single PH balanced mat board, regular glass, greenish sectional metal molding
- Frame size
- 14 3/4" height X 17" width
- Signed
- "London Published Jan 1, 1803 by R Hills" is printed in image at viewer's lower left, same only at viewer's lower right on second print
- Date of creation
- 1803
- Condition
- Coming Home I has faint foxing in right margin in 2 places. Coming Home II has 6 pin pricks of mild foxing in sky. Mat on Coming Home I bears a faint water stain at upper right.
- Provenance
- Consigned by an Arizona resident CC
- About The Heading Home I and II
This pair of etchings demonstrate the eloquence of a drawn lyrical line. We are able to witness its effect in helping our eye to navigate the composition's territory.
- About Robert Hills
(1769-1844) This British painter was known for portraits, landscapes as well as his sensitive depiction of animals. A pupil of John Alexander Gresse, Hills enrolled at the Royal Academy School in London in 1788.
Robert Hills was one of founders of the Society of Painters in Watercolours, where between 1791 and 1844, he exhibited 600 works.
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