A Classical Landscape

An engraver and draftsman of French Huguenot descent, Chatelain was one of the most accomplished landscape engravers working in mid-eighteenth century London. He published a drawing manual, A New Book of Landskips (1737), and provided etchings for such projects as 44 Italian Landscapes (1741-3), The London Hospital (1753), and Six Views in the North of England (1754). His landscape drawings, several of which are in the British Museum, are in the tradition of Claude Lorrain. A sheet of similar size and executed in the same media as this drawing was with Agnew's in 2001 (128th Annual Exhibition, no. 1). The two drawings may have been created as a pair or part of a series.