£190
Four women at prayer
Unmounted (ref: 8657)
Signed with initials in the plate
Line engraving
10 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (26.7 x 24 cm)
Tags: Robert Austin engraving print portraits religion women RELIGION
Tags: Robert Austin engraving print portraits religion women RELIGION
Provenance: The Artist's Family
Literature: Campbell Dodgson, Robert Austin, exhibition catalogue,Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930; Gordon Cooke, Drawings and Prints by Robert Austin, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, London, 2001
A limited edition has been printed posthumously from the canceled plate on Guarro Superalfa (250 gm²).
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, exhition catalogue,Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930).