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Robin
Tanner A.R.E.
Bristol 1904 - 1988 Kington Langley, Wiltshire
The
Road Maker (ii)
Garton 6 iii/iv
99 x 149 mm
Etching,
1928. First published state, issued in 1928. Signed
in pencil, dated and numbered XXXIX of the edition
of 50. (There were subsequent editions from the
reworked plate - of 50 in 1974 and 12 in 1984.)
Entitled in pencil in the lower margin. Printed
by David Strang on cream laid paper watermarked
David Strang. Published by John Nicholson.
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Additional
Information about the Print
A
reprise of Tanner’s unpublished 1927 etching ‘Homealong’,
also entitled ‘Wiltshire Dream’ or ‘The
Dream’, of which only three impressions
were taken, Tanner substituted the figure of
the roadmaker, with his tools and stones, for
the milk-churns left at the foot of the crossroads
in the earlier plate. Moon and star were omitted
from the new sky. The barn was based on that
at Slaughterford and the idea of the roadmaker
came from watching men breaking limestone for
roads at Sheldon Corner.
The
new plate was intended as the first in a series
of country labours, perhaps a suggestion of Tanner’s then publisher,
John Nicholson. But the series was abandoned
after Tanner had completed ‘The
Hedger’ and ‘The
Woodman’.
The
introductory text to the Samuel
Palmer Legacy exhibition includes further
information about Robin
Tanner.
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