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Robert Austin:
Siena Evening 1923
Framed (ref: 5521)

Inscribed in pencil 1st State
Pencil over etching.

Tags: Robert Austin engraving pencil flowers still lifes 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST British Artists in Europe

Provenance: From the collection of the Artist's brother, Frederick Austin

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.50. 

Siena, Evening, was a line engraving published in 1923, (Campbell Dodgson 38 i/ii.), and is described by Salaman in Modern Masters of Etching, ...the roofs of the happy-hearted city decoratively observed from the point of view of a lower-pot on a window ledge.

Siena, Evening was one of the earliest line engravings completed by Austin during his tenure-ship at the British School in Rome (1922-25). Austin was one of the greatest exponents of line engraving - Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, who compiled the standard reference work on Austin, compared him to Albrecht Dürer, noting that Austin had ‘more than a touch of that master in him’ (Dodgson, Robert Austin, exh. cat.,Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930).