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Artist: Sir
William Nicholson
English (1872-1942)
Also known as Beggarstaff
along with James Pryde, Scottish (1866-1941) |
| Plate: NLT. 12 |
| Title: Sandwich-Man |
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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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Trafalgar Square
An ill March noon; the flagstones gray with dust;
An all-round east wind volleying straws and grit;
St Martin's steps, where every venomous gust
Lingers to buffet, or sneap, the passing cit;
And in the gutter, squelching a rotten boot,
Draped in a wrap that, modish ten year syne,
Partners, obscene with sweat and grease and soot, A horrible hat,
that once was just as fine;
The drunkard's mouth a-wash for something drinkable, The drunkard's
eye alert for casual 'toppers', The drunkard's neck stooped to a lot
scarce thinkable, A living, crawling blazoning of Hot Coppers,
He trails his mildews-with a Kingdom-Come
Compact of 'sausage-and-mash' and 'two-o'rum!'
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
girls who sat with the baskets of flowers for sale were a familiar
sight near 'Rotten Row' where the fashionable people of London society
rode out on their horses at the edge of Hyde Park by Park Lane. 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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