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The Etcher

Maker

(etcher)
1869-1942

Title

The Etcher

Date of Production

1895

Medium

etching

Dimensions

Height: 22.5 cm (Sheet)
Width: 14.1 cm (Sheet)

Accession Number

G.2025.XX.2

Mode of Acquisition

gift, 2025

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Gift of Donato Esposito, 2025

Location

Not currently on display

Label Text

Ernest Stamp (1869-1942), who trained at Hubert von Herkomer’s art school in Bushey in the early1890s, was a painter and printmaker who is today best remembered for his prints reproducing the work of other artists, ranging from Gainsborough, Reynolds and Lawrence to Meissonnier and Frederick Walker. His original compositions are less well known, making this early etching particularly intriguing. Its subject matter is unusual; depictions of etchers at work are rare.

Provenance

Wheeler Antiques Ltd., Royston, Hertfordshire; from whom purchased by Donato Esposito on 9 November 2022.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto, lower right, below plate mark, graphite: Ernest Stamp; lower right, within plate, etched Stamp / 1895

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