Rent Day (Unframed Print)

The picture is printed by Thomas Ross Ltd in the traditional way from from the original engraved copper plate. As part of this process, each print has an authentic plate mark impression in the paper surrounding the image - it literally is the embossed mark left from the copper printing plate.

The black-and-white print is then water-coloured entirely by hand to produce a very attractive, high quality and individual piece of art. It is as close as you can get to the original painting. A Certificate of Authenticity from Thomas Ross Ltd accompanies each print.

About Thomas Ross Ltd
The studios and workshops of this firm have a long history of producing some of the world's finest engraved prints, the majority of its plates being over one hundred years old. Some examples date back to the early 1700s providing the firm with an artistic heritage that now spans four centuries. The firm prints on heavy weight acid-free paper, and colours using only the best Windsor and Newton water-colours.

Carbolic supplies this high quality print unframed, so that you can mount and frame it in a style that suits your offices.

About David Wilkie Sir David Wilkie was born in 1785 in Cults Manse near Pitlessie (Fife). Wilkie was perhaps best known for his historical and religious works, but was also a successful painter of portraits and other subjects. He settled in London, being elected to the Royal Academy in 1811. He painted Sir Walter Scott and his family as a group at Abbotsford. His Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo (1822) generated so much interest on its exhibition that crowd-control measures had to be employed.

In 1828, he painted The Entry of George IV into the Palace of Holyroodhouse, celebrating the first visit of a British monarch to Scotland for almost 200 years in 1822. This painting is held by the Scottish national Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Wilkie was appointed Painter-in-Ordinary to King William IV in 1830.

He died while returning from the Middle East.