Moulsey Reach
- Catalogue number
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SO 0014
- Artist
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Edwin Edwards
- Printer
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Elizabeth Ruth Escombe (Ruth Edwards)
- Date
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1864
- Medium
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Etching and drypoint
- Dimensions [to plate mark]
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225 x 100 mm
Subject
Moulsey Reach is section of the River Thames in Surrey, extending between Molesey Lock and Sunbury Lock. In common with many of Edwards' etchings in the 1860s, the view was of a location close the Edwin and Ruth Edwards home in Sunbury on Thames.
Annotated in pencil on the reverse: 'Moulsey Reach 1864 - Edwin Edwards'
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, Roseberys London 17th June 2016
