Returning from St Noets Fair

Returning from St. Neot’s Fair

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-277

Artist: Macbeth, Robert Walker

Date: 1878

State: 1/1

Size: 41.9 x 55.9 cm

Medium: Etching

Alternative title(s) Returning from St. Neot’s Fair or Coming from St. Ives Market
Details Etching. Artist’s Proof. Brown ink on thin paper – possibly chine-collé.Lettered: ‘No. 10 (10 written in graphite). Published by C.W. Dowdeswell Chancery Lane. W.C.’Graphite signature ‘Robert W. Macbeth’ bottom right.
Description St Neots and St Ives are market towns in Cambridgeshire.The original painting, Coming from St Ives Market, 1878, was sold by Christie’s in February 1991 and is now in a private collection.
Other Collections
  1. British Museum: Prints and Drawings Collection, London, UK
  2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Acquired 2019. 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

 

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