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THOMAS CRESWICK R.A.
Sheffield 1811 – 1869 Bayswater, London
The
Village Church
91 x 104 mm
Etching,
1839. The plate signed, dated and inscribed
Etching Club. On laid china paper.The wove
support sheet trimmed in the margins.
This
plate was later included in the Etching Club’s publication Etch’d Thoughts,
1844.
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Creswick
was a founder member of the Etching Club
in 1838.
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JEAN
FRANÇOIS
JANINET
Paris 1752 – 1814 Paris
Restes
du Palais du Pape Jules
(Remains of the country palace of Pope Julius)
Portalis & Béraldi 84
368 x 288 mm
Colour
aquatint and etching, 1775. After the painting
by Hubert Robert.
Printed from three plates respectively in blue,
red and black inks.
Trimmed to the plate, plate borders all round.
On laid paper, small defects mainly in the
borders.
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Pope
Julius III’s ‘country’ seat,
the Villa Giulia, was sacked after his death
in 1555 and over the ensuing centuries became
in effect a barn.
The young Hubert Robert during his residency
in Rome, 1754-65, was fascinated by the remains
of ancient splendour
and the contrast of its subsequent decay and
mundane usage.
As it turned out, within a few years of Robert’s
return to France, the Villa Giulia was restored
by Pope Clement XIV.
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SAMUEL PALMER
Newington, London 1805 – 1881 Redhill,
near Reigate, Surrey
The
Skylark
Alexander/Lister 2 vii/vii
120 x 98 mm (bevelled plate);
99 x 74 mm (etched
image)
Etching,
1850. The plate signed.
Published state, as plate 17 in Etchings for
the Art Union of London by the Etching Club,
1857. Edition of 500. Only issue.
With
the plate number and Palmer’s name
added in the lower plate border for publication.
On laid india paper.
Occasional foxing in the wide margins of the
wove support sheet. The sheet gilt-edged on
three sides.
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The
subject is based on a Shoreham drawing of
c1832, which Palmer had already reprised
for a small oil on panel in 1843. It reflects
lines from Milton’s L’Allegro
To
hear the lark begin his flight,
And singing startle the dull night,
From his watch-tower in the skies,
Till the dappled dawn doth rise.
Palmer joined the Etching Club in 1850 and
found a huge enthusiasm for the technique,
whereby he recaptured the ‘vision’ of
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ROBIN TANNER A.R.E.
Bristol 1904 – 1988 Kington Langley, Wiltshire
The
Old Thorn
Garton 34 iv/iv
100 x 149 mm
Etching,
1975. Completed state. Signed in pencil and
dated ‘76.
First issue, printed and published by Tanner
himself in 1976 in an edition of 12.
(A further 30 impressions would be published
by Garton 1981-84.)
On cream laid paper.
£2000
The joyous splash of May blossom calls to mind
Samuel Palmer’s blossom tree in the water & body
colour In a Shoreham Garden c1829, now in the
V & A Museum.
The drawing of the stile, in Kington Langley,
dates back to the 1930’s, though only etched
in 1975.
The artist’s parents were betrothed beneath
this tree in 1898.
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