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[Penshurst.]
Cecil Aldin [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1910.]
Etching, signed, from a limited edition numbered '91/100' in pencil lower left. 300 x 210mm, 11¾ x 8¼". A fine impression.
A scene at Penshurst, a village in the Sevenoaks district of Kent: an elderly woman and terrier dog approaching a gatehouse walkway with a distant view of a church. The village grew up around Penshurst Place, the ancestral home of the Sidney family. Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870 - 1935), artist and illustrator, was born in Slough, the son of a builder, and studied at the South Kensington school of Art. He worked as a comic illustrator in the 1890's before achieving great success as a sporting artist. He retired to Majorca in 1930.
[Ref: 18622] £380.00
[n.d., c.1910.]
Etching, signed, from a limited edition numbered '91/100' in pencil lower left. 300 x 210mm, 11¾ x 8¼". A fine impression.
A scene at Penshurst, a village in the Sevenoaks district of Kent: an elderly woman and terrier dog approaching a gatehouse walkway with a distant view of a church. The village grew up around Penshurst Place, the ancestral home of the Sidney family. Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870 - 1935), artist and illustrator, was born in Slough, the son of a builder, and studied at the South Kensington school of Art. He worked as a comic illustrator in the 1890's before achieving great success as a sporting artist. He retired to Majorca in 1930.
[Ref: 18622] £380.00