1763 Etching W Ryland Artist Sentenced To Death Executed For Forgery British Art

Description: Item: 18th century etching / engraving on paper by forger William Wynne Ryland, “The Triumph of David” after the drawing by Camillo Procaccini. It’s a perfect piece to have by Ryland because he was a forger and was killed for that, and this etching was made to look like a drawing, on purpose. If it were matted with the lettering at the bottom not visible, many would think this is actually an Old Master drawing. Because of the context, the artist didn’t get in trouble for this one as it was included in a folio of prints “in imitation of” drawings, so they were telling people that the print is an imitation (It’s a real etching, just not a drawing). The market today for actual art forgeries is huge. But, these days they don’t execute traders in fakes, so this piece by Ryland is more of a historical item. Of course it’s always about money but I think what caught up with Ryland was that he did engraving forgeries of paper money. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER EBAY LISTINGS FOR A NICE SELECTION OF ART, ANTIQUES, AND COLLECTIBLES !! Ryland & Fakery: Ryland’s forgeries were perfect, down to the paper manufacturer, but they caught him because the paper itself hadn’t been sold until after the actual date on the bills. This is a good lesson for people. William Blake prophesied 12 years before the hanging that Ryland would be hung. The point is that you have to look at the materials. Fakers these days usually make the same mistake that Ryland made. A talented Chinese artist will paint a painting that looks like a 19th century China Trade maritime harbor scene or extremely fat ‘prize’ cow, pig or sheep, but the canvas is new. Dealers then completely glue the canvas down to old board or what have you to hide the back and put an old frame on the picture, but even the dating and country origins of those materials are usually wrong. Many forgers are of course just signing big names on old paintings, and while a Canadian Modernist isn’t an American naive or ‘Sunday painter’, even people who can’t tell the difference can know that a Canadian Modernist wouldn’t usually paint on American canvasboard. A Hudson River School painting isn’t going to have the canvas ‘fold over’ on the back (those are British paintings), a Boston painting will have fold over canvas tabs on the back (4 of them), a painting from the 1930’s will have tacks in the margins and not staples, etc. Materials are usually the giveaway. Item Details: 1763 etching / engraving on paper (laid, taped or glued on backer paper) by William Wynne Ryland (British, 1732-1783), printed / published in “A Collection of Prints In Imitation of Drawings”, compiled by Charles Rogers, London. I think this print was from the 1778 (original) printing. This is a print after a drawing entitled “The Triumph Of David” by Old Master artist Camillo Procaccini (Italian, 1551-1629), who collaborated with Carracci. It’s thought that Thomas Gainsborough had a copy of this print in his collection… that print had provenance from Cranmer to Walton to Clelland to Kirk and eventually sold at auction.

Price: 250 USD

Location: Pitman, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-09-01T12:56:48.000Z

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