The Spring of Life

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Maker

(etcher)
1869-1942
After
(artist)
1840-1875

Title

The Spring of Life

Date of Production

1894-5

Medium

etching

Dimensions

Height: 25.9 cm (Sheet)
Width: 20.5 cm (Sheet)

Object Number

G.2025.XX.3

Mode of Acquisition

gift, 2025

Credit

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

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. The present print is based on Walker’s 1866 watercolour of the same name (British Museum, inv. 1954,0508.22).

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto, lower left, graphite, FWalker; lower right, within plate, etched, F W

Provenance

Wheeler Antiques Ltd., Royston, Hertfordshire, from whom purchased by Donato Esposito on 4 November 2024.

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