Charles Holroyd R.E.
Potternewton, Leeds 1861 – 1917 Weybridge
Grinding the Axe
Grinding the Axe
Dodgson 21
(Holroyd Opus 21) 125 x 200 mm
Original etching, before 1885.
Signed in pencil and entitled.
With the opus number.
Printed with plate tone in brown ink on stout cream wove paper.
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Information about the Print
An early etching, probably from his Slade days.
Exceptionally few impressions were printed of the early plates and consequently they very rarely appear.
Provenance: by descent from the artist to his widow Lady Holroyd; to their son Michael; to Michael’s godson. |