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Robin
Tanner A.R.E.
Bristol 1904 – 1988 Kington Langley, Wiltshire
The
Meadow Stile
Garton 24 ii/ii
200 x 148 mm (sheet 350 x 283 mm)
Etching,
1970. Published state. Signed in pencil. Entitled
and dated in pencil at the lower sheet edge and
numbered 3, from the edition of 25 printed by Tanner
himself in 1984. (The etching was first published
in 1978 in the new Garton edition of Heather & Robin
Tanner’s book Wiltshire Village,
edition of 100. The 1984 edition, as here, was
the only separate issue. ) On stout wove, supported
fold line and a strip of discoloration 35 mm from
the bottom sheet edge where previously folded back
in the margin.
£1500
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Additional
Information about the Print
This
was Robin Tanner’s
first new plate when he resumed etching in 1970.
The
squeeze-belly stile, typical of the area, was
in the artist’s boundary hedge. The adjacent
gate, a replica of the original ‘Poet’s
Gate’, so named by the Revd Francis Kilvert
(1840-79), stands at the viewpoint much loved
by the diarist. Kilvert was born and served as
curate in the nearby village of Kington Burrell.
The
introductory text to the Samuel
Palmer Legacy exhibition includes further
information about Robin
Tanner.
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