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Charles Holroyd R.E.
Potternewton, Leeds 1861 – 1917 Weybridge
Bathers
Bathers (Plate 1)
Dodgson 71 iii/iii (Holroyd Opus 72)
199 x 270 mm
Original etching, 1893-94.
Signed in pencil.
Final state, the plate cut down, and the third bather worked over and concealed.
On cream laid paper, with narrow margins.
Bathers (Plate 2) or Nymphs by a Lake
Dodgson 229 i/ii (Holroyd Opus 234)
203 x 265 mm
Original etching, 1907.
Signed in pencil and entitled Bathers 2nd plate.
An artist’s proof, in the first state, before the lettering added for publication by Seemann, in Leipzig, in the Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst.
For both prints: £600
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Additional
Information about the Print
An impression exhibited at the R.E. 1894
On the reverse, a drawing, carried out in 1907, ‘tracing’ the outlines of the composition recto with amendments in preparation for a new plate repeating the subject but with various differences, for the Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst.
Provenance: by descent from the artist to his widow Lady Holroyd; to their son Michael; to Michael’s godson.
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