The Image Boy.
(London). (circa 1870). Stock ID #176927 Attractive composition, the image adapted from James Collinson’s painting of 1849. (LB No 49 CL No 86) "This picture features an Image Boy – a person who made a living selling unglazed plaster or parian-ware models (often of classical or religiously significant figures). Such persons are motifs used by a number of other Victorian artists – including William Daniels...Collinson himself first used the subject-matter in a large painting entitled "Italian Image-Boys at a Roadside Alehouse" – his first ‘official’ Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painting (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849)." (Paul Crowther, Awakening Beauty: The Crowther-Oblak Collection of Victorian Art. Exhibition catalogue.) When referring to this item please quote stockid 176927.
Oval print after a technique pioneered by George Baxter, 13.1 x 17 cm (image size), in the original embossed mount approx 20 x 23.5 cm, titled and numbered lower right " The Image Boy 49", the image a trifle faded and the mount lighty spotted, but overall in good condition, preserved in a modern frame.
Price: $75.00 AU