Charles Holroyd R.E.
Potternewton, Leeds 1861 – 1917 Weybridge
Five of the six etchings of the Icarus Series –
Fall of Icarus
Fall of Icarus
Plates 1 and 2
Dodgson 158 (Holroyd Opus 163 / 91 A)
203 x 152 mm
Original etchings, 1901- 02.
The second plate of the subject.
Signed in pencil and entitled.
Printed in brown ink on tissue-thin japan.
A printing crease in the lower plate.
Together with an extensively touched proof of an impression in an earlier ‘state’ – though actually printed from the larger first plate (unknown to Dodgson) 227 x 177 mm.
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Information about the Print
An impression was exhibited at the R.E. in 1902.
The Icarus Series
Daedalus, father of Icarus, designed and built the Labyrinth on Crete, for King Minos to incarcerate the minotaur. Later, to ensure secrecy, Minos imprisoned Daedalus in a tower, where he made two sets of wings, for himself and Icarus, to escape.
Though Daedalus succeeded in escaping, Icarus flew too near to the sun, and the wax, holding together the feathers of his wings, melted and he fell into the sea.
Holroyd worked on the series of Icarus etchings from 1891 to 1902.
Exhibited here are five of the six etchings of the Icarus Series. Lacking is the first of the series - Daedalus (Dodgson 86) in which Daedalus sits high in the tower, pondering a pair of wings. The labyrinth is visible in the distant landscape.
Prints from the Icarus Series in this exhibition are:
Provenance: by descent from the artist to his widow Lady Holroyd; to their son Michael; to Michael’s godson.
On the reverse of this impression a ‘traced’ drawing of the outline of Icarus, for transfer to the second ‘new’ plate.
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