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Size:
Height – 25cm x Width – 17cm
This is likely to be an illustation to The Book of Job, published in 1902
Provenance: The Fine Art Society
In a white frame with painted gesso decoration
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Born Newcastle-on-Tyne, son of a book and stationery wholesaler.
Studied at Edinburgh School of Art. He was deaf from childhood;
work on munitions during World War I caused a serious breakdown in his
health: he began to lose his sight in 1925 and was blind by 1933.
Watercolourist, commercial engraver, lithographer, designer of
bookjackets and lettering, illuminator. His lettering and
calligraphy could be confident and effective, but his figure drawings
was generally hesitant. His best work was in pen and ink (e.g. The Book of Job, 1902). John Russell Taylor described him as an uneven artist with mystical aspirations and an unreliable colour sense.
Source: Bridig Peppin & Lucy Micklethwait, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators – The Twentieth Century
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