DARK TREE, STILL SAD WHEN OTHERS’ GRIEF IS FLED 1842 ANTIQUE ENGRAVING

Original 1842 4 3/4 inch x 7 1/4 inch engraving titled ”DARK TREE, STILL SAD WHEN OTHERS’ GRIEF IS FLED, THE ONLY CONSTANT MOURNER O’ER THE DEAD!”.

A line from ‘The Giaour’ a Fragment of a Turkish Tale by Lord Byron.

Engraved by Joseph Clayton Bentley (1809 - 1851). Joseph Clayton Bentley was a line engraver, aquatinter, landscape painter and watercolourist.

After Thomas Allom (1804 - 1872). Architect, topographical artist, engraver and lithographer. Apprenticed to the architect Francis Goodwin and a student of architecture at the R.A. schools from 1828. A co-founder of the R.I.B.A. who worked with Charles Barry on Highclere and the Houses of Parliament. Travelled widely recording topographical and architectural scenes. He exhibited sixty-five works between 1824 and 1871 at the Society of British Artists and the Royal Academy.

From ‘Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap-Book’ published by Fisher, Son & Co., Newgate Street, London & 108, Rue St. Honore, Paris.

Page size 10 3/4 inch x 8 3/8 inch

The engraving is in very good condition with minor foxing in the white border. Reverse side blank.