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Robin
Tanner A.R.E.
Bristol 1904 – 1988 Kington Langley, Wiltshire
December:
Elegy for the English Elm (ii)
Garton 39 ii/ii
Etching,
1978. Signed in pencil. Published state, only issue,
an edition of 25, by Garton and Cooke in 1984.
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Additional
Information about the Print
The
church derives from that at Ingelsham in north
Wiltshire. The wooden plough in the foreground
is one preserved by Lackham College of Agriculture.
On
the finished drawing for his first Elegy
for the English Elm (‘The Open Road’),
two years earlier, Tanner wrote a line from Thomas
Traherne
“Everything was at rest, free
and immortal”.
The
introductory text to the Samuel
Palmer Legacy exhibition includes further
information about Robin
Tanner.
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