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Artist: Sir
William Nicholson
English (1872-1942)
Also known as Beggarstaff
along with James Pryde, Scottish (1866-1941) |
| Plate: NLT. 10 |
| Title: Policeman |
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Description: Condition
A. Original Lithograph bookplate from "London Types"
Published by William Heinemann, London 1898.
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| Sheet Size: |
10 3/8 in x 13 in |
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26.4 cm x 33 cm |
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| Terms of Sale |
Price: $250.00 USD
On Sale: $195.00 |
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Constitution Hill
Army Reserve; a worshipper of BOBS,
With whom he stripped the smock from CANDAHAR; Neat as his mount,
that neatest among cobs;
Whenever pageant pass, or meetings are
He moves conspicuous, vigilant, severe,
With his Light Cavalry hand and seat and look,
A living type of Order, in whose sphere
Is room for neither 'hooligan' nor 'hook'.
For in his shadow, wheresoe'er he ride,
Paces, all eye and hardihood and grip,
The dreaded 'Crusher', Might in his every stride
And Right materialized girt at his hip.
And they, that shake to see these twain go by,
Feel that the 'Tec', that plain-clothes Terror,
is nigh.
by W.E. Henley from "London Types"
William Nicholson's woodblock prints of the 1890's were amongst the
most revolutionary British print images of the era. They used a treatment
of form, with a stylised simplification of shape, and a handling of
perspective and picture space which had had no precedent in British
art. Influences of Japanese art, and a parallel thinking to, if not
a direct knowledge of, the ideas of Toulouse Lautrec and of the Nabis
painters in Paris at the same period can certainly be felt, although
there is no record that Nicholson had actually studied either at this
date.
One of the most famous of the groups of prints that Nicholson cut
at this period was the series known as 'London Types'. This was made
at the instigation of William Heinemann, who published all William
Nicholson's early prints.
The series portrays typical figures from London life of the period.
The impressions of this popular edition were printed by taking a transfer
from his woodblock onto a lithographic stone and adding lithograph
colour. (Weston)
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