Waggon wheels, tree trunk and beams

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Crome, painter and etcher, was born in Norwich, the son of a publican and weaver. From 1783 he was apprenticed to the house, coach and sign painter Francis Whistler. He completed the apprenticeship in 1790 and became one of the first artists to branch into picture restoration and cleaning. In 1792, he married Phoebe Berney, with whom he would have eleven children. Of the eleven, four died young and four became painters. Crome became Vice-President of the Norwich Society of Artists before being elected its President in 1808. He died at his home in Norwich, aged 52.

Places

Norfolk

Subjects

wheel, landscape C19th, tree

Materials & Techniques

etching, soft-ground etching

Artist

John Crome (1768 - 1821)

Title

Waggon wheels, tree trunk and beams

Date

1811-1838

Medium

Soft-ground etching with chine collée

Dimensions

height: 24.1 cm, width: 20.1 cm

Acquisition

Transferred from the British Museum, July 1946

Provenance

Collection of the British Museum; by whom transferred to the Ministry of Works in 1946

GAC number

211