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Charles Holroyd R.E.
Potternewton, Leeds 1861 – 1917 Weybridge
Michael
Michael
Dodgson 259 (Holroyd 264)
202 x 151 mm
Original drypoint, 1910.
Signed in pencil.
Entitled at the foot of the sheet Michael Holroyd.
Printed with plate tone on thin cream laid japan paper, tipped at the top two corners to stout wove.
£150
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Additional
Information about the Print
The artist’s son, born 1892.
He would serve as a captain in the army in the First World War and later became an Ancient Historian, a Fellow of Brasenose, Oxford and tutor at the college.
He and his wife became good friends with one of his mature students and his wife; Michael stood as godfather to their son and at his death, not having children, left him the family collection of Holroyd’s etchings.
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