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Isabel Codrington
Swimbridge, Devon 1874 – 1943 Minehead, Somerset
The Old Violinist
The Old Violinist
302 x 200 mm
Original etching, c1930.
The plate monogrammed.
The impression signed in pencil; and entitled by the artist in the lower margin.
Edition of 40.
On cream wove paper.
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Additional
Information about the Print
Illustrated in Fine Prints of the Year 1933
An impression was exhibited at Colnaghi in Etchings by Isabel Codrington, June 1933.
Provenance:
The artist’s estate and by descent to her grandson.
Malcolm Salaman explained in the preface to the 1933 volume of Fine Prints of the Year, why he had chosen to illustrate the “characteristic figure of The Old Violinist” in preference to Codrington’s “accomplished landscapes”, also currently on show in the exhibition at Colnaghi.
He is playing his way slowly along the poor street, his worn fingers touching
the strings in no uncertain fashion, though his bowing is not perhaps what it was
in his younger and more showy days. But there is something in the tone or the tune
that attracts a small boy ambling along with his marketing mother. This etching is
suggestive, the face, figure and clothes of the man show wear, but the fiddle is being
strummed with a reminiscence that the child seems to recognise.
Codrington enjoyed adding distant figures to her etched street scenes, enhancing the narrative element. |
