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Sir Frank ShortA Yorkshire Dell or The Heron’s Pool.1905
1905
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A Yorkshire Dell or The Heron’s Pool. (after J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1775-1851.) Soft-ground etching and mezzotint. Hardie 85. mezzotint over etching on India paper printed on chine-collé mounted on sturdy wove paper. 10 7/8 x 15 (sheet 14 x 18 1/4). A rich, velvety impression. Signed in pencil. Houses in a 20 x 24-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Strange writes, "From the water-colour by J. M. W. Turner, R.A., in the collection of the late J. E. Taylor, Esq. 1905.
Mr. A J. Finberg has identified a very slight chalk sketch of this subject in a sketch-book of subjects in Scotland; so the title might be A Scottish Dell." A few proofs of the etching exist.
Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) was an English printmaker from Stourbridge, Worcestershire. He was instrumental in the revival of mezzotint and aquatint practise and was elected as the head for the department of engraving at the Royal College of Art in 1933. An ardent student of the works of J.M.W Turner; Short's reproductions of the Liber Studiorum delineate his exacting skill as well as a sympathetic study of the originals. Upon completion of Turner's most famous series, Short turned to his more esoteric material and published subjects of which the artist and his assistants had left incomplete years before. Several fine plates resulted from this study. In addition to his plaudits as a Royal Academician, Short twice won the gold medal for engraving at the Paris International Exhibition and was later knighted.
Surrounded by large rocks, and at the foot of steep banks, the focus of this image is on a pool. Behind the boulders and the shallows, a cave occupies the central plane of the composition. In the secluded dell of Turner's view, the artist does not employ human staffage. Instead, a heron emerges from the hollow between the banks and flies towards the water. In conformity with the original watercolour, Short's mezzotint is indiscriminate and impressionistic. He contorts the technique of the medium in order to produce a hazy impression suited to the representation of Turner's briars and lagoons.
- Creator:Sir Frank Short (1857 - 1945, British)
- Creation Year:1905
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Storrs, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU33521740643
Sir Frank Short
Sir Francis Job "Frank" Short PPRE (19 June 1857 - 22 April 1945) was a British printmaker and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint and pure aquatint while expanding the expressive power of line in drypoint etching and engraving. Short also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public and was President of the Royal Society of Painter Etcher & Engravers (now styled the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) from 1910 to 1938. Short was elected to the Royal Academy in 1911, the same year he was knighted, and served as the R.A.'s Treasurer from 1919-1932. He was also President of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Head of the Engraving School of the Royal College of Art, where he taught from 1891-1924.
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