The Tow Path, Sunbury

Catalogue number: SO 0016
Artist: Edwin Edwards
Printer: Elizabeth Ruth Escombe (Ruth Edwards)
Date: 1864
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 221 x 101 mm

Subject

Towpath on the bank of the River Thames in winter. The bare stems of pollarded trees emphasised at the upper right.

Inscribed in pencil on the reverse: 'Tow Path, Sunbury - 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, at Roseberys, London 17th June 2016