The Reader

Lumsden, Ernest Stephen (printmaker)

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Title/s

The Reader

The Reverend Nathaniel Royds M.A

Maker/s

Lumsden, Ernest Stephen (printmaker) British artist, 1883-1948

Category

print

Name

print

School/Style

British

Production Notes

First trial proof

Technique/s

drypoint

Description

The artist's father in law

Material/s

black carbon ink (medium)
paper (support)

Dimensions

plate height: 150 mm
plate width: 212 mm
sheet height: 238 mm
sheet width: 281 mm

Date

1920

Provenance

given: Lumsden, Ernest Stephen 1920-09 (Prints given by Lumsden, Ernest Stephen)

Inscriptions/Marks

1. Position: lower left margin
   Type: inscription
   Method: brown ink
   Content: In event of / remounting please / do not cut the / mount so as to / include the writing / at the foot / ESL
   
2. Position: lower left
   Type: number
   Method: brown ink
   Content: IT. 40
   
3. Position: lower centre
   Type: signature
   Method: brown ink
   Content: Lumsden imp
   
4. Position: lower right
   Type: inscription
   Method: brown ink
   Content: ESL to FW.M,C.
   
5. Position: lower left
   Type: title
   Method: brown ink
   Content: "The Reader"
   
6. Position: lower centre
   Type: inscription
   Method: brown ink
   Content: My father-in-law - Revd Nathaniel Royds M.A. / Trinity College Cambridge / Late Rector of Little Barford, Beds:
   
7. Position: lower right
   Type: dedication
   Method: brown ink
   Content: Actual 1st proof (Trial). To the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge / September 1920. / In remembrance of many delightful hours among the Rembrandts
   

Standard print ref/s

Lumsden 195
Copley, John
Lumsden, E. S.
The later etchings of E. S. Lumsden , London? : J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.

Accession Number

P.3037-R (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 81322; Input Date: 2002-10-04 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)