Antique David Law Signed Medieval Bridge Fishing River Landscape Etching 30"

Description

Late 19th century black and white etching by David Law. Landscape of an impressive Gothic stone bridge showing a horse drawn carriage and and rowboat with a man fishing. Attributed to Brig o' Balgownie in Scotland. One of the oldest medieval bridge crossings the River Don in Old Aberdeen. Pencil signed lower left. Signed in plate, lower left. Gilt wood frame.

David Law (1831 - 1901) was active/lived in United Kingdom. A nineteenth century painter, watercolorist and etcher, David Law was apprenticed to a steel engraver at an early age. In 1845 he was admitted into the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, where he studied under Alexander Christie and Emslie Dallas for the following five years. In 1851, David Law gained employment in the Ordnance Survey Office and engraved maps for the following twenty years. At the age of over forty David Law decided to dedicate himself completely to artistic pursuits and came to London. By 1873 he was exhibiting his art at many major institutions, including the Royal Academy. David Law was an original Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, Royal Society of British Artists and the Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Color. (askART)

Condition

No glass; discoloration; chips/cracks to frame detail

Dimensions

30" x 0.75" x 26.5" (W x D x H)