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A pair of 19th Century oval framed bird prints, by Rev F.O Morris, B.A member of The Ashmolean Society, circa 1852. These are presented in our handmade copies of an original Regency frame. These frames are made in our workshop, using the traditional methods of wood, plaster, gesso, bole and gilding with 23 carat gold leaf. The frames have a delicate yellow ochre coloured wash between the nulling and outer mould and the glass has a verre eglomise boarder. They are subtly aged and finished with a period or hand cast brass picture ring for hanging.
Cirl Buntingl, Wood Lark
The prints came from ''''A History Of British Birds'''' by The Rev F.O. Morris, Circa 1852. Francis Orpen Morris (1810 - 1893) was a clergyman and a naturalist. He was a prolific writer on natural history subjects.
Benjamin Fawcett (1808 - 1893) was an English nineteenth century woodblock colour printer. In about 1845 he formed a close working association with Francis Orpen Morris. This relationship would last... nearly 50 years and have a profound effect on British ornithology. Morris wrote the text for books which were financed and printed by Fawcett, and were engraved by Alexander Francis Lydon (1836–1917), who had started his career as Fawcett''s apprentice.
At first wood-engraving illustrations were coloured by hand, but later a system of colouring from multiple wood blocks was used. Hand-coloured wood engraving started with an accurate painting of the subject. This picture was then carved on a wooden block, standing proud in order to pick up the ink. The block was then placed in a printing press to give a black-and-white print, which was then hand-coloured. The wooden print blocks were carved with great attention detail. Pear and boxwood were sufficiently hard and fine-grained, making them durable and capable of showing fine detail.
Fellow engraver W. D. Ridley wrote: ''Benjamin Fawcett was undoubtedly a born genius in the best sense of the word; for in a remote country town in the early days of railway facilities, when it must have been difficult to buy high-grade colour inks, he brushed all difficulties aside, purchased his own boxwood shipped direct from Turkey, matured it, sawed it in slices, surfaced it accurately, drew the whole of his work, Morris''s British Birds, upon these blocks himself, and with the aid of his clever wife, actually produced the first edition so far as the blocks were concerned, ''If there was a secret which produced the fine results it would have been - Benjamin Fawcett engraving every one of the three hundred and sixty plates for this work on wood with his own hand, making the inks himself from the costliest powders and the most expensive varnishes procurable and each specimen plate for the colourers painted by his wife.
Internal Reference: TD2039
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA945512
Dateline of this antique is 19th Century
Height is 30cm (11.8inches)Width is 25cm (9.8inches)Depth is 3.5cm (1.4inches)
Antique SA945512 shown on this page was made in the 19th Century. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
19th Century
ANTIQUE SA945512
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