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Image 516 x 1110 mm, Plate 640 x 1220 mm, Sheet 725
x 1290 mm
framed
Proof before letters.
Printseller's Assocication blind-stamp, lettered TME,
lower right, lettered within image at lower right coner
with the publisher's monogram of initials 'HG'
surmounted by a coronet.
An impressive engraving after the famous painting now
in the collection of Royal Holloway, The University of
London. A crowded scene on a platform at Paddington,
with people saying their goodbyes and others hurrying
to board the train, including a bride and a man being
arrested at the right; behind at right porters load luggage
on to the top of the train
Condition: Light foxing to margins and image, surface
dirt to margins, unexamined out of frame.
[27824]
£900
20th Century
Eric Ravilious
Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) was an English painter,
wood-engraver and designer. He was born in Acton and
was educated at Eastbourne School of Art and then at
the Royal College of Art (1922–1925), where he was
taught by Paul Nash and became close friends with
Edward Bawden. He began teaching part-time at
Eastbourne School of Art in 1925 and later that year
was elected to the Society of Wood Engravers, having
been proposed by Paul Nash. After leaving the RCA, he
became a master of wood engraving and illustrated
numerous books and produced patterned papers for the
Curwen Press. In the 1930s he began painting larger
compositions in a wider range of colour, and this led
him to use lithography to illustrate High Street (1938).
Later as a War Artist he produced a series of lithographs
of submarines.
12. Amusement Arcade
Chromolithograph
Eric Ravilious
Curwen Press, 1938
Image 140 x 149 mm
mounted
From High Street, London: Country Life Ltd
[17379]
£200
13. Fire Engineer
Chromolithograph
Eric Ravilious
Curwen Press, 1938
Image 195 x 140 mm
mounted
From High Street, London: Country Life Ltd
[17387]
£190