Marlow Ferry

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-174

Artist: MacBeth, Robert Walker

Date: 1885

State: 1/1

Size: 29.9 x 45.7 cm

Medium: Etching

Alternative Title(s) Marlow Ferry (after Frederick Walker)
Details Etching. Brown ink on thick paper. Lettered below centre: ‘London. Published 1st March 1885 by Robert Dunthorne at The Rembrandt’s Head in Vigo Street, W.’Bottom right, graphite signature ‘Robert W. Macbeth’.Label on back: ‘From Robert Dunthorne Print Publishers The Rembrandt Head 5, Vigo Street, London, W. and at 36A, Castle Street, Liverpool. After the drawing by F. Walker’.
Description The original watercolour is now in the collection of Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum. Walker (1840-1875) was an English painter of rural, often realist, scenes. Orchar owned another etching by Walker; The Blind Man or The Wayfarers.
Other Collections Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum. Thanks to Donato Esposito for this information.
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