Stothard, Thomas

Pastoral pleasures, romance and allegory flow through these prints by Thomas Stothard (1755–1834), the painter and book illu...

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Pastoral pleasures, romance and allegory flow through these prints by Thomas Stothard (1755–1834), the painter and book illustrator whose designs went on being engraved long after he made them. Dating from 1794 to about 1870, they include pastoral entertainments, romantic incidents, Cupid and a royal meeting connected with the Treaty of Troyes. The Sable Venus is an Atlantic allegory bound up with the imagery and ideology of the slave trade, and later plates after paintings in the Vernon Gallery come from Victorian art publishing.

Pastoral pleasures, romance and allegory flow through these prints by Thomas Stothard (1755–1834), the painter and book illustrator whose designs went on being engraved long after he made them. Dating from 1794 to about 1870, they include pastoral entertainments, romantic incidents, Cupid and a royal meeting connected with the Treaty of Troyes. The Sable Venus is an Atlantic allegory bound up with the imagery and ideology of the slave trade, and later plates after paintings in the Vernon Gallery come from Victorian art publishing.

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