The Upper Pool

Catalogue number: SO 0017
Artist: Edwin Edwards
Date: 1869
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 216 x 124 mm

Subject

A duplicate but un-conserved impression of SO 0004.

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 usually mounted singly on sheets of heavy off-white card. However, this single sheet was unmounted when purchased

History

Purchased at auction in a folio of seventeen etchings by Edwards, at Roseberys, London 17th June 2016. Unconserved duplicate of NBS 0018, with water stains to left and right of the sheet and evidence of a snail crossing the impression.