William Monk

1863 - 1937

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Strand Mortuary

Original etching.

Particularly fine artist’s proof impression, aside from the normal edition.

£165

[Venice – Moonlight] 1925

Original woodcut, printed in colour.

One of only three trial proof impressions printed from two blocks.
Inscribed by the artist in pencil
“March 3. 1925. Two Blocks Blue & Black. 3 Pulls this as ‘all’”.

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[Venice – Moonlight] 1925

Original woodcut, printed in colours.

Beautiful atmospheric impression, printed from three blocks in deep blue, brown and black inks. Signed and inscribed “Trial Pull” by the artist in pencil. Unique.

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[Gondolas – Venice] c.1925

Original woodcut, printed in colours.

Very rare. Signed, proof impression printed from three blocks in pink, blue and black inks. No edition of this fine Venetian colour print by William Monk is known.

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The rare colour prints of William Monk come as a refreshing surprise after the labourious and heavily worked etchings which he produced on an annual basis of the London Calendarium and for which he is now best known. William Monk is known to have exhibited with the Society of Graver Printers in Colour, and was a member of the Colour Print Club, though his colour prints are so rare as to prompt one recent commentator to remark “colour prints by him are rarely if ever encountered” (Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, The Seductive Art. The British Passion for Etching 1850-1950, Oxfordshire, 2001). [more]