[A Study in the Egyptian Antiquity Department in the British Museum]
H.S. Marks. London, Published December 1st 1861 by Day & Son, Lith to the Queen. Etching on india, platemark 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"), with very large margins. Etching by painter Henry Stacy Marks (1829-98), plate 17 from Passages from 'Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club' (1862). Marks first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853 and regularly exhibited there in the next two decades (mostly with Shakespearean or historical subjects). Family responsibilities forced him to take on additional work, including illustrations such as this, art criticism, and designs for porcelain, church and theatre interiors, and even Christmas cards! He was elected as an Academician in 1878.
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