George Hawkins, the elder
George Hawkins, the elder, is represented here by a single sheet from 1811, an etched and aquatinted coastal view with a classical ruin at the right, printed in dark blue. The technique places the image within the tonal printmaking tradition, where aquatint supplies atmosphere and etched line defines architecture and shoreline. Little about the artist's nationality or life dates is recorded in the Met's data, so the sheet stands largely on its own as a document of early nineteenth-century landscape printmaking. The collection accordingly holds one work, with impressions up to 1811.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
