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Jane Worship
Great Yarmouth 1806 – 1879 Great Yarmouth
South East Tower, Great Yarmouth
South East Tower, Great Yarmouth
189 x 127 mm
An interesting group: preparatory drawing, copper plate and an impression therefrom.
The plate, c1837-1842, is signed with initials; the drawing unsigned.
The pencil drawing, on thin wove, is in the same direction as the impression, and to almost the same size as the etching; the two figures in conversation in front of the wall at the left in the drawing are omitted from the etching.
The drawing has a fold and an unobtrusive tear supported verso.
The impression, on wove paper, is modern.
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View of the old ramparts at Great Yarmouth.
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Additional
Information about the Artist
Jane Worship was a pupil of John Sell Cotman, who was based in Yarmouth 1812-1823
and ran a drawing school after he settled back in Norwich in 1824.
Her father Harry Verelst Worship, a lawyer, was a friend and the executor of Dawson Turner, a linchpin figure
in the history of the Norwich School.
Most of Jane’s prints (she probably made fewer than ten) were etched between 1838 and 1842,
after she with her family had moved to Oulton, just north of Norwich.
There she met Bowyer Vaux, acting curate at Heathersett, a village to the west of Norwich.
In 1846 he was appointed vicar of St Peter’s Church in Yarmouth and they married in 1849,
after which she presumably did not continue to etch.
The British Museum has examples of seven of her etchings, all purchased from James Reeve,
a collector of artists of the Norwich School and Curator of Norwich Castle Museum from 1851 to 1910 .
Pencil Drawing
Copper Plate
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