Artist: David Charles Read
Date: 1834
Museum: Te Papa (Wellington, New Zealand)
Technique: Etching
David Charles Read (1790-1851) was one of the most fluent original etchers outside the Norwich School to be active in England between the years 1820 and 1845. Essentially a landscape artist, Read was born in Hampshire and was apprenticed to the eminent engraver John Scott (1774-1828). He lived and worked in Salisbury for most of his life, where he became well known as a drawing master. The majority of his printed works are landscapes, many depicting the countryside immediately surrounding the city of Salisbury and the nearby New Forest. Read later told the British Museum of his contacts with
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