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Richard Redgrave

  1804 – 1888
 
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Silver Thames

Silver Thames   1867

Original etching.

Excellent, strong impression, from the only published edition,
as issued in 1872 by the Etching Club.

£150


The Spring Head

The Spring Head   1860/64

Original etching.

Rare pencil signed proof impression.

£375


The Expected Return

The Expected Return   1844

Original etching.

Very good impression, from the only published edition, as issued in 1844 in one of the Etching Club’s earliest publications, Etch’d Thoughts. Scarce.

£125


Eugene Aram sold

Eugene Aram   1865

Original etching.

Rare pencil signed proof impression on large paper,
as released in the special proof edition of the very scarce 1879 Etching Club portfolio.
An unusually strong impression with exceptional clarity.

One of Redgrave’s only four exhibited etchings.

SOLD

 

Richard Redgrave was one of the founder members of the Etching Club. A man of formidable energy, he was not only successful as a genre and landscape painter but was an enterprising designer and art administrator who established over 100 schools of art throughout this country. Richard Redgrave played a vital part in creating the interest in design and industry that led to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and to the foundation of the South Kensington Museums. [more]