The Old Tree, Hammersmith

 

Frank Brangwyn

  1867 - 1956 (biography)

1903  

zinc plate etching 

5 x 4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not editioned, rare 

titled and inscribed "14." in pencil, lower left 

Gaunt 14; Fine Art Society 14; Newbolt 16 

heavy antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

18900 

$400.00 

Brangwyn's 14th etching, one of his only etchings that was not editioned. The subject, an old tree in Hammersmith (a borough in west London), was etched on the spot and was cut down by 1927. There are other impressions in 3 museums.