Lobster Pots & Lobster on a Beach. Dry-Point Etching. c1900

Pott, Constance Mary

About this Item

A small late 19th early 20th century dry-point etching by Constance Mary Pott. In a generous cream mount and thin gilt wood frame with an Abbott and Holder Ltd label on the reverse, the address 30 Museum St, London and a highly regarded fair price gallery for all things engraved and painted. SIGNED lower right within plate line, and unlike another copy seen no signature whatsoever lower left, nor was one used? Measures. 6 x 8 inches approx to heavy plate line, fine strike, deep impressions, with frame and glass 13 x 15 inches (32 x 45 cm). The paper appears to be hand-made craft art paper, slight sepia tone to the overall image. ** HIST Note: Constance Mary Pott (22 January 1862 ?18 January 1957), RE, was an English printmaker and teacher active during the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century. She became technical and teaching assistant to the teacher and printmaker Sir Frank Short at the Royal College of Art from 1902 until Short's retirement in 1924. In her day she was recognized as a pioneer in the etching revival, for her dynamic, versatile mastery of technique and line, for the spacious evocation of landscape in her plates, and for her formal professional occupation, all exceptional achievements by any standards, but more especially so in their combining in her to overcome societal disapproval of professions for women. As a teacher she had a powerful and acknowledged influence upon a whole generation of engravers (including several prominent women etchers) who passed through the College. However, she long outlived the fashion of that movement, and her central role in it was for a time almost forgotten. Examples of her own works, principally etchings, are held in leading national collections, and appear in the salerooms. Seller Inventory # A454

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lobster Pots & Lobster on a Beach. Dry-Point...

Binding: Framed.

Illustrator: Constance M. Pott

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)

Edition: Limited Edition