£290 

Frank Brangwyn:
Mowers, 1912
Framed (ref: 1861)
Wood engraving on paper

Tags: Frank Brangwyn engraving print work

Provenance: The Artist's Estate; Private collection

Exhibited: Brangwyn In His Studio: The Jointure Studios, Ditchling, East Sussex, October 2006 (no. PR03)
Literature: Dominique Marechal, Collectie Frank Brangwyn, Bruges Stedelijke Musea, 1987, p. 128; print repr. in Modern Woodcutters, No. 2, London 1920; N.M. Lazareva, Frenk Brengvin, Izobrazit, 1978, plate 95; repr. back cover of Frank Brangwyn: Exposition de Gravures, Festival de Melle, 1988.

The wood-block is based on Brangwyn’s earlier lithograph, Mowers 1890.
A limited edition has been printed posthumously on Hahnemuhle Natural Line vergé paper (100 g/m²)

Apparently this wood engraving was made after a drawing to decorate Next Court House in  Cleveland (United States).

Brangwyn produced over 200 wood engravings and woodcuts between 1904 and 1935, many of them intended as book illustrations and head and tail pieces.

We are grateful to Dr Libby Horner for her assistance (Mowers is no. v 1485 in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné).