MORLAND, George. - A party, angling.

London, J.R. Smith, 1789. Mezzotint plate after George Morland by George Keating depicting three gentlemen, two ladies and a black servant, fishing in a boat, under a forested and reeded bank. Ca. 46 x 55 cm. 'A Party Angling captures the very essence of angling's own 'age of elegance' ... and comes from the period when Morland was producing his best work and is one of his best-known images... This wonderful picture of the artist and his friends enjoying a moment's fishing will always be there as a memory of his happiest days' (Beazley, Images of Angling. p.44). 'The figures are believed to represent the artists Morland and William Ward (who were brothers-in-law), their wives, the engraver George Keating and a black servant' (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). - In excellent condition.

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