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Description: | Colour aquatint . In ‘One Mile from Gretna’ a coach races to the village of Gretna, carrying a young couple intending to wed. The anxious passengers look back at the ominous sight of a second coach, thought to carry the ‘Governor’ (presumably the young woman’s father) approaching in the distance.
Printmaker Richard Gilson Reeve engraved two large series of aquatint prints after works by artist Charles B. Newhouse between 1834 and 1838, both depicting anecdotal scenes of coaching and road incidents. The first, ‘Scenes on the Road’, included 18 plates and was published by Thomas McLean. The second set of 16 plates was first published by J. Watson of Vere Street, London, as ‘Incidents in Travelling’ (re-issued in 1845 by Messrs. Fores as ‘The Roadster’s Album’.) The plate ‘One Mile from Gretna, Our Governor in sight’ was included in the series ‘Incidents in Travelling’.
‘A False Alarm on the Road to Gretna’ (see GAC 15771) was first published as an individual plate by J. Watson in 1836. Watson also re-issued ‘One Mile from Gretna’ as an individual in 1838. Sometime after this date, these two works were issued again, apparently as a pair, by publisher Barnett Moss & Co. of Leman Street, London, who had presumably purchased the plates. | Subjects: | genre fence hill topography carriage woman road telescope man | Temporal: | c.1839-1845; 1838/1845 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Richard Gilson Reeve (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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