Flordon Common, by Lucy Brightwell (1811-1875). © The Trustees of the British Museum. Height: 111 millimetres x Width: 172 millimetres. Source: British Museums Collections, image kindly released on the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
According to the museum site, on which this appears as Asset no. 972294001, this is an impression pasted onto a backing sheet, an undated etching inscribed in graphite with this title, followed by "(From Nature)," with Brightwell's name. The indication that the etching was "from nature" is important, since this artist so often devoted herself to copying famous artists of the past. It reminds us of the kind of open land around Norwich which she herself loved, and where her friend from childhood, George Borrow, liked to meet and talk to the gipsies. — Jacqueline Banerjee
Bibliography
Lucy Brightwell, in the British Museum Collections. Web. 15 June 2020.
Created 13 June 2020