Antique 1886 Fred Slocombe Surrey England Windmill Landscape Etching 37"

Description

Antique late 19th-century landscape etching titled The Mill (also known as Surrey England Windmill) by the acclaimed English painter and etcher Frederick Albert Slocombe. A traditional tower windmill situated on a Surrey common next to thatched-roof country cottages, complete with a muddy lane, a mirroring pond with ducks, and bare rustic trees capturing a serene rural atmosphere. Etching on paper, utilizing a combination of dense fine-line cross hatching and hand-colored tinting to give depth to the sky, foliage, and reflective foreground pool. Circa 1886. Remark of a farmhouse plow.

Frederick Albert Slocombe (British, 1847–1920), who regularly signed his pieces as Fred Slocombe, was a prominent member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and specialized in naturalistic English countryside aesthetics.

Condition

Light foxing; gentle wear to frame

Dimensions

36.75" x 1" x 27.75" / Sans Frame - 27.75" x 18.75" (W x D x H)