SERENDIPITY

The Oxford English Dictionary defines Serendipity as follows.

Formed by Horace Walpole after the title of a fairytale, Three Princes of Sarendip, the heroes of which ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’;
the making of happy and unexpected discoveries by accident or when looking for something else;
such a discovery;
loosely - good luck, good fortune.

This catalogue offers a selection of prints several of which, in the course of research, turned up interesting points or connections, several of them found as a result of Googling on the internet.

Walter Greaves: Lime Wharf. Original etching

I was fascinated, for example, to discover that Walter Greaves’ father was boatman on the Thames to J M W Turner, so that in rowing Whistler Walter was following in a family tradition.

Otherwise it is the ‘usual’ winter miscellany, including some fine portraits of artists; some nice landscapes, from early Daubigny to outstanding Pissarro, who again ornaments the front cover; and ‘British’ printmakers chronologically from Cotman through to Denyer-Baker and alphabetically from Anderson to Whistler.

In sum, some old friends, some regular acquaintances and some new discoveries, and ending in a splash of colour.

Ethel Kirkpatrick: Sunset. Original colour woodcut, c.1905

Published Winter 2014.
Quarto paperback, 52 pages, 98 illustrations, 10 in colour. Details of 86 items.

(Price U.K. £12; International orders £16)

Images from the catalogue are shown elsewhere on the website in the concurrent Home Page Selection.

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Artists included in the catalogue:

• Anderson S
• Angus S
• Blampied E
• Bléry E S A
• Boldini G
• Burridge F
• Cameron D Y
• Cope C
• Cotman J S
• Cowern R T
• Creswick T
• Daubigny C F
• Delleany G
• Denyer-Baker B
• Dodd R
• Dürer A
• Fry R
• Gilbert R J
• Greaves W
• Greenwood T
• Hardey S
• Henderson E
• Herkomer H von
• Hollar W
• Holloway E
• Horseley J C
• Hughes M K
• John A
• Kirkpatrick E
• Knight L
• Lewis A J
• Litten S M
• Lozowick L
• Lund N M
• Melle
• Menpes M
• Osborne M
• Piranesi G B
• Pissarro C
• Rabin S
• Rouault G
• Short F
• Scullard S
• Simpson J
• Sparks N
• Squirrel L
• Strang W
• Tanner R
• Taylor C W
• Tute G
• Ward L M
• Walcot W
• Webb C
• Wierix H
• Whistler J M
• Wyllie W L

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