Christmas Morning

Christmas Morning

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-176

Artist: MacBeth, Robert Walker

Date: 1878

State: 1/1

Size: 14.0 x 19.7 cm

Medium: Etching

Details Etching. Artist’s Proof. Black ink on thick paper. Lettered: ‘No. 6 (6 written in graphite). Published by C.W. Dowdeswell Chancery Lane. W.C.’Graphite signature ‘Robert W. Macbeth’ bottom right.
Description In addition to a similar impression, the British Museum has in its collection an impression of the girl in reverse carrying no gifts and with a different background. This impression is identified as ‘proof of an illustration to ‘The Count’s Daughters’ in ‘Good Words’, Christmas number 1874, p.3. 1874. Wood-engraving on thin proofing paper’.
Other Collections
  1. British Museum: Prints and Drawings Collection, London, UK
References
  1. Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists. Paris, Gründ, 2006
  2. Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979
  3. Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904.Wakefield, S.R. Publishers, Ltd., Bath, Kingsmead Reprints, 1970
  4. Christopher Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club, 1971

 

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