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THE
PASSION for PRINTS
 This
passion for prints is a quotation
translated from a fuller observation by Florent le Comte
in his book ‘Cabinet des Singularitez’, 1699,
on the contemporary enthusiasm among collectors for prints.
It was brought to my mind as a title for this Winter
catalogue when I found that this collection of new acquisitions
would contain not only a number of images whose subject
is people enjoying looking at prints, but also a number
of portraits of print scholars by William Strang, most
notably that of Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints at
the British Museum in the early decades of the 20th century.
As also a small group commissioned by Parisian printdealers
Edmond Sagot and Henri Petiet to advertise their galleries.
The
usual wide range of artists on this occasion includes
such passionately committed printmakers as Dürer,
Callot, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Piranesi, Palmer, Meryon,
Ensor, Strang, Short, Bone, Blampied, Austin, the young
Sutherland, and Laboureur. The last represented both
by impressions of two of his engravings and one of his
actual copper plates.
 There
is a small group of rare ‘vorticist’ woodcuts
by Wadsworth as well as the unique impression of one
of his two etched plates. Brangwyn who was “blasted ” by
the Vorticists is represented by two typically very large
etchings and Henry Newbold, whom the Vorticists blessed
is the subject of another etching by Strang.
Other
portraits include a young man, as yet unidentified,
reading 'Blast' (the manifesto magazine of the Vorticists);
writers Victor Hugo (by Rodin) and Siegried Sasoon, conductor
Artur Nikisch and composer Hugo Wolf.
An interesting group of colour prints includes works
by J B Jackson, Auguste Brouet, Maurice Delcourt, Mabel
Royds and Helen Hyde.
Published 2002
64 pages, 129 items described and illustrated in black & white,
with four in colour on the cover.
(UK
Price: £7, International orders: £10)
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Artists
included in the catalogue:
- Aldegrever
H
- Austin
R
- Badmin
S
- Bauer
K
- Bauer
M
- Belleroche
A
- Blampied
E
- Bloemaert
A
- Bol
H
- Bone
M
- Boreel
W
- Bostock
J
- Bracquemond
F
- Brangwyn
F
- Brouet
A
- Brown
- Bussy
S
- Cain
O
- Callot
J
- Canaletto
A
- Clarke
J
- Collaert
A
- Corinth
L
- Delcourt
M
- Dodd
F
- Dürer
A
- Elsheimer
A
- Ensor
J
- Fairclough
W
- Fingesten
M
- Flameng
L
- Frélaut
J
- Gachet
P
- Géricault
T
- Gervis
R
- Goudt
H
- Greiner
O
- Gromaire
M
- Haig
A H
- Halm
P
- Heckel
E
- Hollar
W
- Huet
P
- Hyde
H
- Isabey
E
- Jackson
J B
- Laboureur
E
- Lee-Hankey
W
- Legrand
L
- Lock
A
- Lopata
V
- Lunois
A
- Meryon
C
- Millet
J F
- Mohr
A
- Oppler
E
- Palmer
G
- Palmer
S
- Peeters
G
- Peter
R C
- Piranesi
G B
- Platt
J
- Poole
M
- Rayner
H
- Rembrandt
- Robinson
S
- Rodin
A
- Roussel
T
- Royds
M A
- Ryssel
P van
- Saftleven
H
- Saftleven
C
- Sattler
J
- Short
F
- Smith
E
- Spackman
C S
- Strang
W
- Stürmer
W
- Sullivan
E J
- Sutherland
G
- Taquoy
M C L
- Tiepolo
G B
- Titian
- Tunnicliffe
C F
- Turner
J M W
- Tytgat
E
- Vaes
W
- Wadsworth
E
- Wehl
O
- Weissenborn
H
- Whistler
J M
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