Lodore Cataract, Cumberland, Antique Waterfall View Engraved by Martini, 1848
€ 215
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1848
Mapmaker / artist
Engraved by I. G. Martini
Publisher
Bibliographisches Institut, Hildburghausen
Technique
Steel Engraving
Coloring
Uncolored
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-11671-57
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Marked handling soiling along the bottom, left and right edges. Scattered light foxing in the margin. Corners and edges are not shown by this scan. Clean, even paper tone in the margin. Several larger brown marks.
About this sheet
The Lodore Falls in Cumberland, an original antique steel engraving, uncolored, dated 1848 on the plate. The caption below the image reads "LOWDORE CATARACT, CUMBERLAND" with (England) on the line beneath, in the spelling of the plate.
This is an upright plate. The water pours down a steep wooded ravine toward the viewer, breaking white over a staircase of dark boulders, with a single slender tree growing from a rock in midstream. Dense trees climb both sides of the gorge, firs stand on the skyline at the upper right and a bare crag rises at the upper left under a light, clouded sky. At the lower left, beside a dead tree, one man clambers over the rocks while another stands against a boulder above the torrent.
The engraver's credit just below the image at lower right reads Gest. v. I. G. Martini 1848. (engraved by I. G. Martini, 1848). The imprint at lower left reads Aus d. Kunstanst. d. Bibl. Inst. in Hildbh. (from the art works of the Bibliographisches Institut in Hildburghausen), and at lower right Eigenthum d. Verleger (property of the publishers). The plate number DLXXXIV is engraved at the top right.
The sheet comes from a dealer's album rather than from a bound set. Meyer's Universum was a serial collection of engraved views with descriptive text, published by Joseph Meyer's Bibliographisches Institut at Hildburghausen from 1833, its plates engraved on steel. The falls lie on the Watendlath Beck just above Derwentwater, and Robert Southey made them famous with his poem The Cataract of Lodore.
Marked handling soiling along the bottom, left and right edges. Scattered light foxing in the margin. Corners and edges are not shown by this scan. Clean, even paper tone in the margin. Several larger brown marks.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
