At Barking, Essex or Norfolk Church Tower by Thomas Lound, 1802-1861

Thomas Lound, 1802-1861
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At Barking, Essex or Norfolk Church Tower

Original etching in black ink. 1832. Signed with initials and dated in the plate. Extremely rare unissued etching. Unknown to Bolingbroke when he compiled the manuscript catalogue of the work of the Norwich School Etchers.
See: Bolingbroke - Norwich School Etchings Thomas Lound no 1
This is noted as 'first attempt'. The work above corresponds in format and size. See notes

Extremely fine impression. On pale cream laid india (chine appliqué). Generally exceptionally fine condition for such a print; slight marginal soiling (outside the platemark). Good margins. Sheet: 14 3/8 x 10 1/2. Plate: 10 1/8 x 8ins. Image to border: 8 1/8 x 6 1/8ins.

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Thomas Lound was one of the early members of the Norwich Society (see John Crome and John Sell Cotman). He was an artist with an extremely sensitive feeling for the qualities of light in landscape and on buildings, using a technique in his painting which combined a very delicate linear stroke with colour washes. It was the same purity of line which he used when, inspired by the etchings of Crome and Cotman, he decided to try printmaking for himself.

Lound's etchings were virtually never issued in published editions, and are extremely rare. This composition has a manuscript title added to the sheet At Barking Essex by T Lound (in an unknown hand). No such composition is recorded in the manuscript catalogue of Norwich School etchings by Bolingbroke, which is the only existing so-called complete list of Norwich prints. However, the first work that Bolingbroke lists for Lound he calls Church Tower. It almost exactly corresponds in size to At Barking, above. It is also unique amongst Lound's prints in being in this format (all the others are miniature in scale). It seems likely that the impression that Bolingbroke saw and recorded was either this etching, or an early incomplete state of it (hence the annotation "first attempt").

This is the only impression of this composition that appears ever to have appeared on the market in the past 30 years or more.