Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-130
Artist: Hubert von Herkomer
Date: 1879
State: 1/1
Size: 19.1 x 14.0 cm
Medium: Etching
| Alternative Title(s) | The Blind Man’s Child |
| Details | Etching. Dark brown ink on thin laid paper. Graphite signature bottom right ‘Hubert Herkomer’. The British Museum impression is noted as ‘Etching with drypoint, roulette, plate tone, printed on thin paper in dark brown ink’. |
| Description | This print has a number of different names; The Shepherd and his Daughter, The Blind Man’s Child, The Welsh Shepherd’s Daughter are some of the titles this work is known by.In his writings Herkomer provides a passionate insight into the attraction of printmaking; ‘I confess that twenty times and more did I give up etching, and twenty times and more did I take it up again. I have burned holes with the acid in my clothes, and holes in my skin; I have spoiled carpets and had inflamed throats from poring over the fumes; I have sat up half through the night with a plate that would not come right, and had finally to be abandoned; I have taken plates to my bedroom and worked at them when half-undressed, and then gone to bed and had frightful dreams about them; I have neglected all duties in the dog-days of my etching career, and made my family miserable and ill by filling the whole house with bad fumes; and yet I live to say that I love etching with all my heart and soul.’ Herkomer, Etching and Mezzotint Engraving, Lectures Delivered at Oxford. London and New York, 1892, pp.6-7. As cited in Emma Chambers, An Indolent and Blundering Art? The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England 1838-1892. Aldershot 1999, p.38. |
| Exhibited Dundee | It is likely that this print was the one exhibited as The Blind Man’s Child marked as ‘Property of J.G. Orchar’ at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute, 1881 (Fourth Gallery, No. 802). Dundee Fine Art Exhibition Catalogue 1881, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum. |
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