Hampton Court Palace, Entrance to the Courtyard

Catalogue number: SO 0012
Artist: Edwin Edwards
Printer: Elizabeth Ruth Escombe (Ruth Edwards)
Date: 1862
Medium: Etching
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 230 x 100 mm

Subject

The outer courtyard of Hampton Court Palace. A small military parade, possibly of part-time members of the Rifle Volunteer movement, takes place in the central foreground. Other men in uniform look on from buildings at the right.

Inscribed in pencil on the reverse: ‘Edwin Edwards, Hampton Court Palace, Entrance to the Ct yard - 1862’

Printing

Printed by Ruth Edwards, c.1889. It appears that Ruth Edwards undertook the printing of the majority of her partner's work both during his lifetime and subsequently. In the late 1880s she prepared an unknown number of posthumous portfolios of Edwin Edwards early work, using plates that mostly dated from the 1860s. These impressions were printed on fine Japanese paper, laid paper or Chine Collé, and mounted singly on sheets of heavy off-white card measuring 456 x 367 mm.

History

Purchased at auction in a folio of seventeen etchings by Edwards, at Roseberys, London 17th June 2016