Mary Annie Sloane

1867 - 1961

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Pipewell Gate, Winchelsea c.1910

Original soft ground etchings with additional pencil work.

Unique pair of working proof impressions - Mary Annie Sloane's personal working proofs.

£420 - the pair

[Churchyard with town beyond]

Original etching.

Early working proof impression. Mary Annie Sloane's personal working proof.

£245

[Gypsy in a landscape thought to be at Mersea] 1901

Original etching.

Excellent signed proof impression. Apparently the artist's own reference proof, further inscribed "M A S".

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[A Flemish Church] c.1912

Original etching.

Very fine signed proof impression, printed with plate tone.

£115

The Acropolis, Athens 1932(?)

Original etching.

Excellent signed proof impression, from the artist's own studio collection.

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[Lady in ceremonial dress, bearing a presentation] c.1910

Original etching.

Very fine signed proof impression, printed with plate tone.

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[Seated lady wearing an elaborate crown]

Original etching.

Exceptionally early working proof impression in the first state of the plate.

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[Seated lady wearing an elaborate crown]

Original etching.

Very fine working proof impression in the second state of the plate, printed with plate tone.

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A King's Attendant from the nativity play "Bethlehem" c.1907

Original etching.

Fine artist's proof impression, printed with plate tone.

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Mabel c.1918

Original drypoint.

Excellent signed proof impression.

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Peter George Sloane 1920

Original drypoint.

Excellent signed proof impression.

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[Children crossing an elaborate stone bridge]

Original etching with pencil additions by the artist.

Unique working proof impression with pencil additions and alterations by the artist. Mary Annie Sloane's personal working proof.

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[House amongst Fells] c.1910

Original etching.

Very good artist's proof impression, printed with plate tone.

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[Willow Trees at Sunset] 1902

Original etching.

Very good signed proof impression, printed with plate tone.

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[Stockinger weaving Silk Stockings] c.1895

Original etching with drypoint.

Excellent working proof impression from the artist's own collection.

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Born in Leicester in 1867, the painter and printmaker Mary Annie Sloane was trained in etching and engraving techniques by Sir Hubert von Herkomer at his School of Art at Bushey. M.A.Sloane lived for many years in Enderby, Leicestershire, but later moved to London, where she became close friends with both Sir Frank Short and his assistant at the Royal College of Art, Constance Mary Pott.

Mary Annie Sloane's work illustrates the transition from the art of the Victorian era to that of modern British etchings. Her elaborate early works reflect the traditional Victorian approach embodied in Herkomer's teaching, whilst her later, more open drypoints show an almost complete shift towards the light, freely worked style typical of early twentieth-century prints.

M.A.Sloane was fascinated by the traditional craft of weaving, practised in her home town of Enderby, and she recorded this increasingly uncommon skill in a number of her finest etched works.

Few of Mary Sloane's etchings and drypoints were ever published in any formal edition. All of the impressions offered on this site are from the artist's personal collection and all are either her own working proofs, or her finest completed proof impressions.

Mary Annie Sloane died on November 30th 1961. [more]