Antique Peter Moran Farming Mowing Boy Riding Plough Landscape Etching 27"

Description

Antique black and white etching featuring a farm scene that shows how hay mowing was done before the steam tractor came along. A boy sits atop the plough being pulled along by black and white horses. Remark of ducks / geese.

Peter Moran came from a family artists. His brothers Edward and Thomas were painters and etchers, and a sister-in-law, Mary Nimmo Moran, was an etcher. Peter was born in England and came to the United States at the age of three. He trained in a lithographic shop, but did not like it. He decided to become an artist, and admired animal painters like the famous Edwin Landseer. Later he became very interested in scenes of the wild west as it was being settled. He learned etching, and became one of the best in the country. He was president of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers.

Condition

Light discoloration; some wear to edges

Dimensions

27.25" x 21.5" (W x H)