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JANE COPUS
Born Durban, South Africa 1944
Jane Copus has spent most of her adult life in England. She was a visiting lecturer in painting and drawing at various London art schools for thirty-four years, and in the 1980’s worked as a freelance illustrator. In retirement she has developed an interest in printmaking.
She is greatly interested in microscopic marine life forms, inspired by the 19th century biologist Ernst Haekel . The particular genesis of the Royal Barge series was influenced by the fact that she now lives near water, in Medway, and by a work called Octopus and Effigies, by the Aboriginal Australian printmaker Dennis Nona.
Royal Barge & Radiolaria, Diatoms
and New Moon
318 x 247 mm
Original colour drypoint and cut outs, with hand-painted details in gold, 2014.
Monogrammed in pencil and dated.
Entitled and numbered 1/1.
On cream Somerset wove paper.
£500
The images of the barge and the various “treasures of the deep” were drypointed on the reverse of discarded lithographic plates; aluminium sheets so thin that the images could be cut out with a pair of nail scissors. These, individually inked up, were scattered onto an inked ‘blank’ plate, a sheet of damp paper placed on top and put through an intaglio press. A technique which gives one-offs but can be used for a series of variations using the same elements. The Royal Barge was printed in a series of four, one and two having old moons, the third (that offered here) a new moon and the fourth, no moon.
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WILLIAM LEE-HANKEY R.E.
Chester 1869 – 1952 London
A painter in oils and watercolour, Lee-Hankey took up etching in 1904, the same year he built a house in Le Touquet and acquired a studio in Etaples.
He divided his time between England and France and most of his prints were made in the Pas de Calais.
Sur le Terrain Field Workers
Hardie 162
462 x 567 mm (sheet)
Drypoint, 1919.
The plate signed with the monogram and with the American copyright C.
Signed in pencil and with the blindstamp monogram in the lower margin.
Published state, edition of 100.
On cream wove paper, slight foxing.
Narrow margins on three sides, trimmed along or just into the platemark at the top.
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Perhaps the artist’s largest etching.
Hardie comments that the setting is a farm, La Ferme Rénard, near Boulogne.
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JACOB MATHAM
Haarlem 1571 – 1631 Haarlem
after
HENDRIK GOLTZIUS
Brüggen 1558 – 1617 Haarlem
Matham’s widowed mother married the engraver Hendrik Goltzius in 1579. Goltzius adopted Matham and trained him as an engraver. By his late teens Matham was employed to engrave Goltzius’ designs for publication.
Among these early collaborations was a set of eight ‘Mythological Subjects’ which included several themes of ‘numbered’ groups of figures and personifications that were so popular at the period – and included the four Elements, five Senses, seven Virtues, and three Fates, as well as the three Graces offered here.
Goltzius red chalk drawing for this subject is in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett collection.
The Three Graces
Hollstein (Matham) 244; New Hollstein 355 ii/ii
Hollstein (after Goltzius) 273; New Hollstein 648
Bartsch 285
301 x 211 mm
Engraving by Matham after Goltzius, 1588.
The plate signed with Goltzius’ monogram.
Plate 8 of the eight ‘Mythological Subjects’.
Second (final) state, with the plate number 8 added in the border at the foot.
A good clear but later impression, published by G. Valck, post 1652.
With margins.
The paper watermarked with a Coat-of-Arms, initial N, topped with a fleur-de-lys.
A small rust mark visible recto.
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The three Graces, Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia, personifications of grace and beauty, were the attendants of several goddesses, primarily Venus. Goltzius followed the grouping which had been used on Antique reliefs and imitated by Italian Renaissance artists, of the two outer figures facing the viewer and the central figure seen from the back.
Seneca described them as the threefold aspects of generosity- the giving, receiving and reciprocating of gifts, while in the Renaissance they were considered personifications of Chastity, Beauty and Love, or as three phases of love.
The verses at the foot of the plate comment on the goddesses, sitting naked in the clouds, as clothed with grace and representing a pure love above worldly considerations.
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HEINRICH VOGELER
Bremen 1872 – 1942 Kazakhstan
Vogeler moved to Worpswede in 1894.
A village outside of Bremen, it had developed as an artists' colony, in a similar way to Barbizon in France, when Otto Modersohn and Fritz Mackensen, fellow students of Vogeler at the Düsseldorf Academy, visited there in 1889.
Though initially characterised by ‘plein air’ landscape painting, the arrival of Vogeler brought a Jugendstil tendency.
Following their group exhibition in Bremen in 1895 Paula Becker, a pioneer Expressionist (who would marry Otto Modersohn) was also attracted to the colony.
Frühlings Morgen Spring Morning
Rief 25iiB3
Pl. 2 of An der Frühling (“At Springtime”)
159 x 159 mm
Etching and drypoint, 1899.
The plate monogrammed.
Signed in pencil.
One of a total of about 380 impressions in the various editions.
On japan.
£850
Beyond the blossom in the foreground, the Barkenhoff, Vogeler’s Worpswede cottage, now a museum to the artist, is visible.
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