Artist: Julius Caesar Ibbetson
Title: Going to the Hayfield
Size: 24" x 20"
About the Editions: The Atelier Collection is an historic collection of hand-pulled and hand-coloured engravings and a small selection of hand-coloured prints. Rosenstiel's has built up the collection since the company was founded in 1880 and the original copper plates from which the prints are pulled span two centuries of print history. Each print is painstakingly pulled by skilled craftsmen, using techniques which have changed little over the last four hundred years. Most images are then hand-coloured by a skilled watercolourist, whilst some are carefully inked in the plate.
Medium: Restrike Engraving - The paper used for the intaglio prints is acid-free and 100% cotton rag. It is also substantial, ranging in weight from 270g/m2 to 300g/m2. The paper used for the photo-mechanical prints is also acid-free. Some is part cotton rag; the rest is made from highly refined cellulose wood-free fibre. All is of excellent, durable quality and of good weight. The inks used for the intaglio prints are made by Charbonnel of Paris. In the case of certain colour prints, pigments may be ground by hand in pure linseed oil. All hand colouring is done with artists' watercolour of the best quality, supplemented by special pigments such as gamboge (to achieve the richest yellows) and gum arabic (to impart a soft sheen to appropriate areas). Traditional colours and colouring methods are carefully respected.
About the Artist: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, also known as Andrew Geddes, was born in 1759. While a teenager, Ibbetson was apprenticed to a boat painter and thus learnt to work on designs. When he was 17 he painted stage sets in Hull and York, before leaving for London in 1777 and starting to work on paintings.

He painted views of the London suburbs and, from 1785, exhibited at the Royal Academy. However, life was hard; traders paid him miserable prices and he could barely support his numerous children. Unproductive depression followed.

An invitation to sail to China reawakened his ardour for work, although the journey was aborted. He set to work and painted some accomplished pieces until descending again into a life of dissipation which lasted for some time. After a spell in Yorkshire in 1781, he settled down to work again and continued to paint productively for the rest of his life.
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