Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine coloured etching, titled and signed by the artist. Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamps. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with large margins. Slight mount burn.
Two women in a rowing boat. One is fully nude about to dive into the water while the other is half covered by a towel and braces herself against the side about to get up. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62513]  £480.00