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Robin
Tanner A.R.E.
Bristol 1904 - 1988 Kington Langley, Wiltshire
The
Hedger
Garton 7 ii/iii
100 x 149 mm
Etching,
1928. First published state, issued in 1928. Signed
in pencil, dated and numbered XVI from the edition
of 50. (There was a second edition, of 12, from
the reworked plate in 1984.) Entitled in pencil
in the lower margin. Printed by David Strang on
cream Whatman laid paper. Published by John Nicholson.
The remains of an old exhibition label on the reverse
in the top left corner of the sheet.
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Additional
Information about the Print
The
second plate of the abandoned proposed series
of Wiltshire country labours.
The landscape
derives from Weavern and Slaughterford, where
Tanner used to watch a hedger at work. The church
owes something to Colerne.
The
introductory text to the Samuel
Palmer Legacy exhibition includes further
information about Robin
Tanner.
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