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Antique English Victorian Lithograph Engraved Watercolour Painting Picture Of Dolly Varden By William Powell Frith (circa 1887)

£1,150    $1,434    €1,386
Summary:
 
• Item: William Powell Frith Watercolour
 
• Engraver: Charles Edward Wagstaff (1808 - 1850)
 
• Painter: William Powell Frith (1819 – 1909)
 
• Medium: Hand Tinted Lithograph
 
• Circa: 1870
 
• Period: Victorian
 
• Provenance: London, UK
 
• Subject: Dolly Varden
 
• Woodland scene
 
• Extremely well painted
 
• Natural colours
 
• Pleasing subject
 
• Original frame
 
• Signed William Powell Frith
 
• Good original condition
 
• Frame Height = 70cm / 27½” / 2ft 3½”
 
• Frame Width = 54cm / 21¼” / 1ft 9¼”
 
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This is a fine quality antique English Victorian hand-painted lithograph of Dolly Varden in a woodland scene. Originally engraved by Charles Edward Wagstaff and then believed to be hand-tinted by William Powell Frith in watercolours, circa 1887, in excellent condition.
 
 
Dolly Varden, a mythical character, first appeared in the novel Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens’s, who was also a friend of William Powell Frith. Edward Frith-Powell painted Dolly Varden in many poses; her style of dress became famous throughout England and Europe with young working-class / middle-class girls, who emulated this fashion in the late Victorian period. This particular picture was of a pose of a young girl in a wood. The painting shows good rich colours and the stye of the Victorian hat and dresses of the day.
 
 
The lithograph was originally engraved by Charles Edward Wagstaff, who was a line, mezzotint and mixed-method engraver, specialising in portraits and historical and genre subjects (born 1808 and died 1850). A limited number of lithographs would have been printed, for painting purposes.
 
 
It is believed this lithograph was then hand-watercolour tinted by Edward Frith-Powell in 1887. It was purchased by John Dexter on the 25th May 1887 on Derby Day, which was presumably the Derby Festival at Epsom, where Edward Frith-Pow...
Antique #SA1065709, shown on this page, originates from 1880. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was made:
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