Winifred Austen [signed in pencil lower right].
[n.d.]
Coloured aquatint 190 x 260mm Some printing stains in outer margins. Previously laid on card backing, however removed.
By Winifred Austen, R.I., R.E. (1876-1964). Although she also worked in both oils and watercolours, Austen is most highly regarded as an etcher. She made some two hundred etched plates and the naturalist Sir Peter Scott said she was 'certainly the best bird etcher of this century'. illustrator, painter, etcher and aquatint engraver of birds and mammals.
Guichard British Etchers: pg.24. "Warwick Galleries" stamp lower right.
[Ref: 471]  £320.00