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[Sleepest, or wakest thou]
[Sleepest, or wakest thou]
R. Ansdell.
[Etching Club 1853]
Etching, sheet 165 x 250mm (6½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Shepherd lying asleep surrounded by sheep. Walking stick and horn lay behind him. Illustration of King Lear Act 3, scene 6 from Songs and Ballads of Shakespeare' published by the Etching Club. Richard Ansdell RA (1815-85) was was a British painter of animals and genre scenes and member to the Etching Club.
See BM 1869,0213.232 for letterpress.
[Ref: 61176]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Shepherd]
[The Shepherd] 26
Henry J Townsend.
H J Townsend 1850 [within plate]
Etching on chine collé, plate 120 x 115mm (4¾ x 4½"), with very large margins. Some light foxing in margins.
A shepherd sits within a rocky landscape, staring into space as he tending his flock. Plate 26 from The Etching Club's 'Etchings for the Art-Union of London by the Etching Club.' Henry Townsend (1810-1890) was one of the founding members of the Etching Club and a painter of fairy pictures and historical subjects.
[Ref: 61181]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Spring Flood.]
[The Spring Flood.]
CWC
1858.
Etching on india applied to backing sheet, 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼") with margins beyond the image on all sides. Early working proof impression.
A woman carries a girl across ankle deep water. A boy holding a basket and a stick looks on in concern with his dog. An early working proof impression before the covering of his intials and the date with added water, rocks and marshy looking river bank. The published version of this etching was issued by the Etching Club in 1865. Charles West Cope (1811-1890) was the founder and leader of the Etching Club.
See also 61147 for another proof.
[Ref: 61150]   £150.00   (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Spring Flood.]
[The Spring Flood.]
CWC
1858.
Etching on india applied to backing sheet, 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼") with margins beyond the image on all sides. Proof.
A woman carries a girl across ankle deep water. A boy holding a basket and a stick looks on in concern with his dog. The published version of this etching was issued by the Etching Club in 1865. Charles West Cope (1811-1890) was the founder and leader of the Etching Club.
See also 61150 for another proof.
[Ref: 61147]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Dogs and wild-boar.
Dogs and wild-boar. 12.
Fred.k Tayler.
[n.d. c.1872. Etching Club?]
Etching on chine collé, plate 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"), with large margins.
Two dogs sink their teeth into a wild boar attempting to flee in a grassy landscape. (John) Frederick Tayler (1802– 89) was a 19th-century English landscape watercolour painter, president of the Royal Watercolour Society and member of the Etching Club. Tayler executed some two dozen ‘lithotints,’ which were published by T. McLean in 1844, under the title of ‘Frederick Tayler's Portfolio.’ A member of the ‘Etching Club,’ he etched a number of small plates for the various publications of that body (Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village,’ ‘Songs of Shakespeare,’ ‘Etched Thoughts,’ &c.), and also made drawings on wood for several popular classics, such as Thomson's ‘Seasons,’ ‘Sir Roger de Coverley,’ and Goldsmith's ‘Works.’
[Ref: 61182]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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