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WENCESLAUS HOLLAR
Prague 1607 – 1677 London
Hollar was a Protestant gentleman amateur etcher until he was exiled from Catholic Prague in 1627,
when he turned professional . He worked for various publishers, moving from Stuttgart to Strasbourg and various German towns and the Netherlands. He was living in Cologne in 1636 when he joined the service of Thomas Howard and came to London. The Civil War led to his temporary return to mainland Europe for a number of years, settling in Antwerp, where 1649-52, he etched a number of series of landscapes, ports etc for the publisher Joannes Meyssens.
The Horseman
Pennington 1226 iii/iv
145 x 221 mm
Etching after Jan Wildens, 1650, one of the landscapes after various artists etched for Meysens.
A later impression in the third state, after the date has been removed and with Meyssens name as publisher replaced by that of Cornelius Galle the Younger (1615-1678).
Trimmed to the plate.
Watermark large Pro Patria.
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Ex collection: Marquis Philippe Chennevières (Lugt 2072)
Jan Wildens (1586-1653) was an Antwerp landscape painter and draughtsman.
His name was added to the plate after Hollar had returned to England in 1652, probably by Meyssens, replacing Hollar’s erroneous ‘Cornelius de Wael inv’.
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HYPPOLYTE PETITJEAN
Maçon 1854 – 1929 Paris
Petitjean was influenced by the Neo-Impressionists, with whom he exhibited, and by Puvis de Chavannes.
Almost exclusively a painter, it was probably the commission from the German art review, Pan, in 1898 that inspired his unique colour lithograph.
He made only one other print, a black and white lithograph, in response to the Dreyfus case.
Politically, he was an anarchist.
Arcadian Composition
260 x 198 mm
Original five-colour lithograph.
Issued by Pan, 1898.
On chine vollant.
With the Pan publication line and the German title Dekorativer Entwerf, (Decorative Design) in the margin at the lower sheet edge.
£300
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JOHN ERIC MARSHALL
Bromborough, Cheshire 1911 – 1994 Amberley, West Sussex
Marshall attended Liverpool City School of Art, studying wood engraving, mechanical draughtsmanship,
book illustration and painting, probably both their practice and to teach, as when he left the college
he became a teacher on the Wirral.
William Thomas Rawlinson, to whom this linocut is dedicated, was a fellow student at Liverpool,
studying the practice and teaching of art, and took up linocut at the school in 1931.
Marshall joined the Army at the outbreak of the War, and served in North Africa and Palestine.
After the War, he undertook further teacher training in Liverpool before being appointed art master
at Rossall public school in Lancashire, where he established the Art Department.
Evensong
164 x 101 mm
Original linocut.
The block signed with initials.
Signed in pencil, entitled, dated and dedicated to fellow wood-engraver William Rawlinson.
On tissue-thin japan, with related creases in the margins and some pale staining.
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REGINALD HERBERT GREEN A.R.E.
Yarmouth 1884 – 1971 Maidenhead
A landscape and architectural etcher, and teacher, Green was elected an Associate of the R.E. in 1918. Over the next thirty years he exhibited 25 prints with the Society, and also exhibited elsewhere from time to time.
(A canal boat entering a lock on the Grand Union Canal)
155 x 200 mm
Original etching, signed in pencil.
On cream laid paper, time-stained on the reverse.
A small tear in the image and pressure weakness at the right plate edge, supported verso.
£100
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