Robin Tanner

Christmas

1928

Politics (Tonnere de Brest). 1926. Drypoint. Appleby 108. 7 x 9 (sheet 10 1/2 x 15 1/2). A rich impression printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Illustrated: Salaman, Modern...

The Letter. 1921. Drypoint. Appleby 107. 7 x 9 3/8 (sheet 10 1/2 x 15 7/16). Edition 100. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1925; Salaman, Modern Masters of Etching: Edmund Blamp...

La Gaité Montparnasse.. c. 1919. Etching. Bromberg catalog 186 state iii. Image: 3/4 x 4 1/4 (sheet 9 3/16 x6 3/4). No stated lifetime edition. 19 posthumous impressions were printed for the Sickert Trust (1945-47). This is proof #7. Illustrated English Prints for the Collector, p. 163. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper. An extremely scarce etching in Sickert's oeuvre. The image is of a music-hall interior. Signed in the plate. Housed in an elegant French mat and a stunning 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 2-inch silver wood frame. Walter Richard Sickert...

1917. Etching. Hardie 175. 8 x 15 (sheet 10 1/8 x 16 15/16). Edition 76. Slight mat line; otherwise excellent condition. A rich impression printed on antique laid paper with full m...

Soup. 1920. Drypoint. Appleby 65. 9 x 8 1/8 (sheet 15 x 11 9/16). Edition 100. Illlustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 13 (1926): 85. Signed in pencil. Edmund Blampied was a painter, etcher, lithographer and sculptor. Born in 1886 to a family of three boys in St. Martin, Jersey, Blampied became interested in drawing at an early age. After visiting the studio of John Helier Lander in 1899, Blampied decided to make a career as an artist. In 1903 he went to London to attend Lambeth Art School, where he studied etching under Walter Seymour. In 1905, he joined the Daily Chronicle as an artist. In that year he was awarded a scholarship to Bolt Court Scool of Photo-engraving and Lithography. In 1912 he left the Chronicle and established his own studio. He earned a living by illustrating novels and short stories. In 1913, he had his first exhibition at the Leicester Gallery in London. The following year he married Marianne Van Abbé. During the 1920's, he became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. During the 1920s Blampied became a member of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers and exhibited in London to critical acclaim. He produced a folio of comic drawings in the 1930s which was published in New York in 1934 and another that was published in London in 1936. The Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum published a mongraph on his work. His London exhibitions were highly successful. In 1938, he moved to Bulwarks, St.Aubin in Jersey, but at the onset of the Occupation, had to relocate to Route Orange, St. Brelade. remained there throughout World War II during the German Occupation, despite the fact that his wife was Jewish. During the Occupation he designed bank...

The Gamekeeper's Cottage. 1928. Etching. Garton 8.iv. 6 7/8 x 8 3/4 (sheet 10 3/8 x 13). Signed in pencil. Housed in a stunning 17 3/4 x 20 1/2-inch burled wood and gold frame. Garton writes, page 27: "Studies for this print were made at Annie Bryant's old cottage in Kington Langley; at Rose Cottage...

Le Peseur d'Or (The Money Exchanger) is a wonderful black and white etching on wire rod cream-colored paper, realized by Léopold Flameng, an after by the Flemish artist Gabriel Metsu...

La Devineresse is an original artwork realized by Jean-Lubin Vauzelle in the second half of the XVIII century. Original etching on paper. Passepartout included (39 x 28.5 cm). Sign...

Chez François Bouvin is a wonderful etching realized in 1891 by Charles Courtry, after François Bouvin. This Modern artwork representing a scene of ordinary life, is a beutiful arti...

Reception of the Duchess of Sutherland is an original zincography realized by an artist of the 19th century (1864). The artwork represent the re...

Self Portrait is an original artwork realized by Charles Courtry (1846-1897) in the Late 19th Century. Etching print. Signed on plate. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted th...

Ancient Roman painting- Offering Scene from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Nic Orcity an...