print
- Museum number
- 1913,0212.54
- Title
- Series: Art Journal
- Description
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The Spring of Life; two little girls in simple rustic dress, one standing at the edge of a brook, holding a jug for the other, who sits to left with a basket beside her and a small open fire and magnifying glass on the grass in the foreground, with livestock in the field behind to left and a cascade falling over the wooded rocky bank on the opposite bank; after H Campotosto; unlettered proof. c. 1871.
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1871 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 467 millimetres
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Width: 338 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This impression comes from a series of India paper proofs before letters in the BM (1913,0212.10 to 69) many of which it seems were later published by Virtue in the Art Journal; this print appeared in the 1871 issue (facing p.80). Many of these plates were subsequently reprinted in James' Dafforne "Modern Art: a Series of Line Engravings from the Works of Distinguished Painters of the English and Foreign Schools ... With Descriptive text by J. Dafforne'', London (Virtue & Co); this comprised 120 prints after paintings by contemporary masters issued in two series of 60 plates each (1886). 22 of the series 1913,0212.10 to 69 overlap with prints in the series 1923,1112.121 to 168; these were probably cut out from Dafforne's volume, of which there is no copy in the BM.
Accordingly to an information given to BM by Mr Martin Stojanovic (January 2015) same title seems to appear on a print of a quite different subject by same Armytage after Campotosto. The annotation mentioning Cottrill refers to the owner of the original painting.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Acquisition notes
- 1913,0212.10 to 69 are a set of proof engravings from 'Modern Art', edited by James Dafforne, London (Virtue & Co) 1886
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1913,0212.54