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C1874
Puck and the Fairies. (Midsummer Nights Dream)
Artist:
Richard Dadd (1817 - 1886)
Engraving of a scene in Shakespeare’s comedy, ‘Midsummer Nights Dream’.
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Full Title:
Puck and the Fairies. (Midsummer Nights Dream)
Date:
C1874
Artist:
Richard Dadd (1817 - 1886)
Engraver:
William Home Lizars
(1788 –
1859)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
205mm
x 210mm
Paper Size:
264mm
x 368mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1874
Description:
Engraving of a scene in Shakespeare’s comedy, ‘Midsummer Nights Dream’.
Biography:
William Home Lizars (1788–1859)
Lizars was born at Edinburgh in 1788. He was an artist and engraver, the son of Daniel Lizars, and brother of the surgeon John Lizars.
His sister Jean (Jane) Home married Sir William Jardine.His father was a publisher and an engraver and Lizars was apprenticed to his father. He furthered his studies at the Trustees’ Academy, Edinburgh. Lizars took over his fathers business on his death. Lizars met J. J. Audubon in Edinburgh in October 1826 and agreed to publish Audubo Lizars perfected a method of etching which performed the functions of wood-engraving, for illustration of books.
He died in Edinburgh on 30 March 1859, leaving a widow and family. Lizars took an active part in the foundation of the Royal Scottish Academy.
