The Bride (1829): Art, History and Details

The Bride (1829) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Edward Calvert (British, 1799–1883).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Calvert produced a small body of work---eleven miniature engravings on wood and copper---each devoted to what he conceived to be the Earthly Paradise. These breathtakingly detailed compositions are among the most intense expressions of the Ancients’ artistic sensibility. In the idyllic landscape of The Bride, a nymphlike figure stands upon the bank of a meandering brook. In the distance, a man invoking the god Mercury strides over the hills.

Object facts

• Title: The Bride
• Date: 1829
• Creator attribution: Edward Calvert (British, 1799–1883)
• Culture: England, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: engraving
• Collection: PR - Engraving
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1929.140

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry. "The Prints of Edward Calvert." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 24, no. 4, pt. 1 (April 1937): 53-56.

View the collection record

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