"The Bath": signed and dated (in the plate) wood engraving by William Strang RA (1859-1921), Plate No. 15, for 'The Artist Engraver - a quarterly magazine of original work, Edition No. 4, October 1904'
Published by Macmillan & Co, London
Presented within original grey paper folder, as published 1904, and printed on fine cream* coloured quality laid paper
*paper in actuality creamier than my rather grey photograph... sorry
Measures (image) 22 x 25 cms. (product) 42 x 34 cms.
Very good condition, lovely sepia brown colour, and nice big margins - would look wonderful framed!
*William Strang RA (1859-1921). Dumbarton born Strang was known in his lifetime as a portrait painter and printmaker. He enrolled at the Slade School of Art in London in 1876, and studied under the school’s then newly-appointed professor, the French Realist Alphonse Legros (1837–1911). Legros had introduced a continental style of teaching which focused on the importance of fine draughtsmanship and drawing from life. Strang’s closely observed depictions of the lives of the urban poor are clearly influenced by Legros as well as by a life-long respect for the traditions of the old masters Rembrandt, Dürer, Van Dyck, and Goya.
Strang was a prolific printmaker and across his lifetime produced over 750 original prints. He worked mostly in etching, but experimented with other techniques including drypoint, mezzotint, lithography, aquatint, woodcut and engraving. He was a key figure in bringing about an international revival of interest in original printmaking during the late-nineteen and early twentieth-century. Although he went on to achieve great recognition as a painter, printmaking remained central to Strang’s work until his death.