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1764 Ambroise, Loire Valley, France, large rare etching by William Baillie

1764 Ambroise, Loire Valley, France, large rare etching by William Baillie

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Landscape with a Stone Bridge, 1764

A View of the Bridge and Entrance of the Town of Ambroise on the Loire

Landscape with a stone bridge arching across a river to right, from a city with a tower gateway to left, with a man driving a donkey on the bank and two women beating their washing in the shallows; scratched-letter proof before title, before retouchings; after Lambert Doomer.

Etching printed in black with surface-tone

William Baillie, English, 1723-1810

Etching printed in black ink on wove paper.

Plate: 11 5/8 × 17 inches (29.5 × 43.2 cm) Sheet: 14 × 22 inches (35.6 × 55.9 cm).

Signed in plate, lower right corner of image: WBaillie

Inscribed in plate, center bottom margin: In the Collection of the Earl of Bute. | A View of the Bridge and Entrance of the Town of Ambroise on the Loire. Dated, lower right corner of image: engraved by Captain | 1764 - WBaillie.

A Dutch artist with the wonderful name of Lambert Doomer, arrived in Amboise in the summer of 1646. He left with a sketchbook of fine drawings which captured the spirit of the age and his account of the trip is now considered one of the best documented artists' journeys of the 17th century.

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