The Harvest Moon

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-172

Artist: MacBeth, Robert Walker

Date: 1883

State: 1/1

Size: 31.8 x 86.4 cm

Medium: Etching

Alternative Title(s) The Harvest Moon (after George Mason)
Details Etching. Lettered top right ‘London. Published 17th January 1883 by Robt. Dunthorne at The Cabinet of Fine Arts, Vigo Street, W.’Graphite signature bottom left.

Label on back: ‘From Robert Dunthorne. Print Publishers. The Cabinet of Fine Arts, Vigo Street, London, W.’

Description Mason (1818-1872) was an English painter of idyllic rural scenes. The original painting, one of Mason’s most famous, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1872. It is now in collection of the Tate Gallery.
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