Hero’s Widow 1944/45 |
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Original line engraving.
Signed and dated in pencil.
Ref: post Campbell Dodgson 134
S 289 x 226 mm; P 161 x 115 mm; I 131 x 105 mm
£295
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Original Robert Sargent Austin engraving.
Very fine signed proof impression with crisp clarity of line, as issued by the Print Collectors’ Club, with the Club’s monogram in the plate. From the only edition of 109 signed proofs.
This meticulously handled work highlights the difficulties faced by women who had lost their husbands during the Second World War. This engraving was made after the publication of Campbell Dodgson’s catalogue on the engraved works of Robert Sargent Austin and has been listed variously under the titles of Woman with Saw, Widow, and Hero’s Widow – it was under this last title that the plate was issued as the presentation plate of the Print Collectors’ Club at the end of 1944; like almost all known impressions of this engraving, this particular impression was signed by Austin in early 1945.
On pale cream wove J Whatman paper with full margins and deckle edge. Very fine original condition. |
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