Poplars at Twickenham, with Charles Leland
- Catalogue number
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SO 0015
- Artist
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Edwin Edwards
- Printer
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Elizabeth Ruth Escombe (Ruth Edwards)
- Date
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1870
- Medium
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Etching
- Dimensions [to plate mark]
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115 x 85 mm
Subject
Inscribed in the plate 'Twickenham' and ‘with C. Leland, July 13. ‘70’. This dedication apparently refers to the American journalist and folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903). Leland arrived in Europe in 1869 and settled in London, where he was “involved in a series of books on industrial arts and crafts, including Pyrography or burnt-wood etching (1876).”1 Leland’s principle focus in Europe was folkloric research; his book Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches (1899), co-written with the Italian sorceress Maddalena Talenti, continues to influence Neopaganism.
Annotated in pencil on the reverse: 'Poplars at Twickenham, with Charles Leland, 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
