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GEORGE EDMUND BUTLER
(Southampton 1872 – 1936 Twickenham)
The Scyther
The Scyther
106 x 81 mm
Monochrome brown monotype, c1911.
The image initialled.
Dedicated on the original dark brown mount with a New Year greeting.
£250
To view a higher resolution version of this print, please click this link: The Scyther
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Additional
Information about the Print
Butler grew up and received his early art training in New Zealand,
returning to England permanently when he was twenty-six.
In 1918
he would be employed as a New Zealand official war artist.
Though not known as a printmaker he experimented at least once
with monotype, as in this early image.
Monotype, a planographic process, is the most painterly of all printmaking
techniques, for the ink is manipulated by the artist directly on the surface
of the plate – the design as it were ‘painted’ on.
The plate (of copper or glass) can be printed by hand pressure, thus not
necessarily requiring any specialist printmaking equipment.
In general,
by its nature, it yields only a single impression, hence its name.
The resultant image retains all the freshness and immediacy of the artist’s sketch
but ‘stamped’ with a feel of finish and permanence.
That artists choose to make monotypes, which are unique prints and unlike the
other printmaking techniques cannot be editioned, is confirmation that
printmaking is not so much about multiplying an image, as the special character
of the mark-making a specific technique gives and the quality of an enhanced
significance the image receives in being printed.
For more information, and further examples of monotypes and other Planographic forms of printmaking, please explore the Monotype page in the Techniques section of this website.
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