Antique Master Print-THE-DEATH-OF-THE-STAG-Boydell-Berthoud-1820

Description Medium: Etching on wove (vellin) paper. Sheet size: 22 x 17 cm (8.66 x 6.69 inch). Image size: 15 x 10.5 cm. (5.91 x 4.13 inch). Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. DEER, STAG, HUNTING, DRAMATIC SCENE, BOYDELL, DEATH, NATURAL HISTORY, BRITISH PRINT | BOX-LANDSCAPES BACKGROUND INFORMATION A COLLECTION OF LANDSCAPES, VIEWS, SHIPPING & ANIMALS, BY VERNET, VIVARES, SNYDERS, &c. NINETY PLATES. LONDON: Printed by Schulze, 13, Poland Street, For H. Berthoud, Bookseller, 28, Soho Square. 1820. Biography engraver: John Boydell (1720-1804) was an English publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated an English tradition in the art form. A former engraver himself, Boydell promoted the interests of artists as well as patrons and as a result his business prospered. Biography artist: Publisher: Henry Berthoud (1794-1864) was a painter and printmaker born in London on April 8, 1794. Son of the Swiss watchmaker Henry Berthoud Sr. (q.v.) and Ann Wiswall of London. Associated with his father’s publishing company in the Regent’s Quadrant, Piccadilly, from the early 1820s, initially as a printmaker and then as full partner. After the company went bankrupt in 1828, and following a short stay in the Fleet Prison, Henry Jr. moved to Paris where he continued as a printmaker and painter. He divided his time between London (exhibition in Suffolk Street, 1846) and Paris (paintings exhibited at the Salon, 1843-1849) where he died on September 25, 1864. He married twice, first to Marianne Flieguer in London in 1818 and then, after her premature death in 1822 (perhaps in childbirth), to (Victoire-) Elisabeth Chomel (d. 1848) in Paris in 1844. His only child, Maria (b. 1821), from his first marriage, also died prematurely in 1836.