The House of the Abbot (aka The Abbot's House)

 

Ernest Stephen Lumsden

  1883 - 1948 (biography)

1924  

etching and aquatint 

9 7/8 x 12" platemark 

ink, lower center 

9 of 50  

titled, and numbered 

Burnaby:1987.287.1 

cream laid with crown watermark 

ii/ii 

artist 

8933 

SOLD

E.S.Lumsden was an outstanding technician at both etching and printing his plates. He passed much of his knowledge of these techniques on to the rest of the world through his highly influential book The Art of Etching, first published in 1925.