The Dance

The Dance

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-171

Artist: MacBeth, Robert Walker

Date: 1886

State: 1/1

Size: 32.4 x 85.1 cm

Medium: Etching

Alternative Title(s) The Dance (after George Mason)
Details Etching. Black ink on thick ivory coloured paper. Graphite signature bottom right.Lettered, below centre: ‘London. Published May 1st 1886 by Thom. Agnew, 39 Old Bond Street and P.D Colnaghi, Pall Mall East and New York by Knoedler and Co’.
Description The etching was based on an original painting by Mason – possibly his 1869 painting Girls Dancing by The Sea. Mason (1818-1872) was an English painter of idyllic rural scenes.
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.
  4. Christopher Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club, 1971

 

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