St James's Park
1790
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1790
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
St James's Park is a 1790 by François David Soiron, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows an everyday scene in London’s St. James’s Park from 1790. It’s not a painting—it’s a print made with tiny dots and colored inks. The artist used a cool tool called a mattoir to create texture. He also dabbed colors onto the plate with mini doll-shaped tools, called à la poupée. You can still see some hand-brushed touches on the dog’s fur. Look next at prints by Soiron, François David.
François David Soiron’s 1790 print of St James's Park employs a stippled technique using a mattoir, with colour applied à la poupée—ink dabbed onto the plate via small doll-shaped tools—resulting in dots visible under magnification. Some areas, such as the dog’s brown tones, were hand-coloured with visible brushstrokes. The oval composition depicts a soldier and his family drinking milk in the park, with the soldier seated centrally, a young boy to his left, a seated woman holding a child on his right, and a girl standing beside her, while a dog occupies the foreground. The print is one of a…
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François David Soiron made late-18th-century London prints that capture everyday spots.
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