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William
Livesay
A Derbyshire etcher exhibiting 1882-84
An Old River Course
176 x 251 mm
Etching, 1881. The plate signed and dated. Published in English
Etchings Part 14. With the blindstamp in the margin at the bottom left. Printed in brown-black ink on cream laid paper. The full sheet, wide margins. Small defects at the sheet edges.
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Additional
Information about the Print
The
first of three landscapes produced by other artists
in the year of Samuel Palmer’s death.
They
were issued in monthly parts, within paper folders,
by the art journal English Etchings – A Monthly
Publication of Original Etchings by English Artists,
published by William Reeves, Fleet Street. The
loose leaf etchings were each prefaced by a text
describing the subject or by appropriate poetry.
An
old River Course was described as follows
on the Contents sheet of Part 14 of English
Etchings
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The
subject of this etching was found in
what was formerly the bed of the river
Dove in Derbyshire. It is now used
as a duck decoy, and goes locally by
the name of Sevastopool, for it was
in the year 1855 that the river was
diverted and the site planted and left
to the wild-fowl.
Anyone
strolling here in the winter twilight
would hardly fail to call to mind
Milton’s lines -
There,
in close covert by some brook,
Where no profaner eye may look,
Hide me from Day’s garish eye.
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