Words Of Comfort

Words of Comfort

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-129

Artist: Herkomer, Hubert von

Date: Between 1877-9

State: 1/1

Size: 24.1 x 17.5 cm

Medium: Etching

Alternative Title(s) Youth and Age
Details Etching. Dark brown ink on thin cream coloured paper. Bottom right (smudged) in print: ‘HH79’.
Description Some impressions of this print were printed by Eugene Delâtre son of Auguste. The British Museum has an earlier lithograph impression on chine collé. From the series ‘Echoes from the German Alps’. Initialled and dated by the artist ‘77’. Lettered below image ‘The English Picture Publishing Co., Manchester. Maclure & Macdonald. Auto. 97 Queen Victoria Street’, and ‘Entd. Sta: Hall. Auto-proof, Copyright.’It was later published in P.G. Hamerton’s The Portfolio. March 1879, p.41
Exhibited Dundee An etching titled Reading by Herkomer was exhibited at the 1879 Dundee Fine Art Exhibition (West Gallery, No. 1157) and it is possible that it was this impression. Dundee Fine Art Exhibition Catalogue 1879, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum.
Other Collections Common

  1. British Museum, Prints and Drawings Collection, London, UK
  2. Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  3. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  4. Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, 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. Kenneth M. Guichard, British Etchers 1850-1940. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1977
  5. H. von Herkomer, My School and My Gospel. London, Constable and Co., 1908
  6. H. von Herkomer, The Autobiography of Hubert Herkomer. London, privately printed, 1890
  7. Christopher Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club, 1971

 

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