Etchings Dry Points Muirhead Bone

Two hun d red and seventy - five copies of this catalo ue w hich tw en t : g have been printed , of y fi ve are for presentation . a u u -n o o7 This c opy is N o . o c 0 0 0 o o ¢ List of Con ten ts . Prefac e I ntroduction Catal ogue Appendi x I ndex of Titl es PREFA E C . T HE fi rst volume of this catalogue records the work ’ M r fi rst of . Bone s ten years as an etcher , and does 1 8 not include the plates of 9 0 . Four subj ects published e Ar undel South Coast East latchin ton in that y ar , , , B g , and ’ he New Str and m T . fifth , may be na ed here A , the artist s fi r st . portrait , is published in this book Other plates , h unfi n is ed . , have for the present been laid aside m A . 1 8 brief epito e of this catalogue , down to N o 5 , appeared in a provisional form at Vienna in The order then adopted has been strictly preserved , except in . 1 1 the following cases N os 7 and 9 have been transposed , on the discovery of a state of Distant Dumbar ton dated 1 8 . 1 1 0 99 N os 49 and 5 have been transposed , to restore the order in which these subj ects stood in the set of Ten Dry Points , as published ; they were unintentionally misplaced . 1 f in 1 90 6 . N o 75 in the present catalogue is a dif erent subj ect from that described under that number in 1 9 0 6 ; Ste hen in P r o le m roof p , fi was merely a frag ent of a p of 6 fi rst . 1 N o 7 in the state , and no separate plate corre 1 8 spond in g to that title ever existed . N os . 6 to 2 2 5 are now s recorded for the fi r t time . c ould The order is chronological , or as nearly so as it be ’ made with the help of the artist s notes and reminiscences . ’ 1 h r r l m u t 6 t ihm en der Gesellsc a t a ve vccl a ti de K ns 1 0 . An t l o M i t a . c e n M r . g f f f g . 9 , p 5 5 ar i ' on e s w ork to w c s lis of e c n s fo ms s u lemen ea e th e B . hi h thi t t hi g r a pp t, app r d at ’ me a e i n Die Gm uckm Kanste sa d t fl s . I n two cases a discrepancy must be confessed , which could not be put right without a serious dislocation of the pub lish ed : . 6 . order No 3 should have preceded No 5 3 , and 8 1 e 1 . NO . 7 should have be n entered under the year 99 I n a few other cases wh e re a date written by the artist disagrees with that given in the catalogue , the evidence has been deliberat e ly weighed and the decision has gone against the written date for one reason or another ; appar m e ent mistakes in such atters need not , therefor , be set th e h e down to carelessness on part of t author . Since 1 90 6 thirt een e arly etchings and dry points have i come to light . A serious disturbance of the publ shed order would have been inevitable if these had been described in their proper place . To avoid this , and to enable the e collector , notwithstanding , to insert thes subj ects in their right chronological order , they have been described at the 1 end of the volume (Nos . 2 3 each with a number of its own followe d by an indication (in brackets) of its place Glas ow Har b our . 2 1 in order of date ; for instance , g , N o 7 68a ma b e . 2 1 e ( ) , y treated as N o 7 , or lse inserted after ’ 8 i e . NO . 6 , at the owner s d scr tion i s n ow m e The catalogue believed to be co plet , and e very subj ect of which an impression has been preserved m e has been i partially described , what ver degree of artistic m importance it may claim to possess . So e plates have e m e been suppress d by the artist , and every i pr ssion of m e e the , to the best of his belief, has b en d stroyed ; of these no record has been kept . There is only one plate here recorded of which I hav e not bee n able to see an im pression ; the unique proof of N o . 2 9 was sold to a dealer m m m I mm at Ha burg so e ti e before co enced this catalogue , and repeated efforts to obtain an exact description of it were fruitless . To describe the rare and widely scattered works of the 1 8 8 1 0 1 m d iffi cult years 9 to 9 was a atter of considerable y , and would have b e en impossible without the constant aid m of M r . Bone hi self and the invariable kindness of the m m e numerous owners of his prints to who he introduced . Owing to the d ifficulty of obtaining at the same time a m m m number of i pressions of the sa e plate for co parison , ‘ I b e r d ifi eren c e cannot certain , even now , that eve y of I state among the early works has been recorded , but have spared no pains in endeavouring to achieve com le n ess 1 0 m p te . The etchings of 9 3 are uch less widely 1 0 I dispersed , and since 9 4 , when undertook the pre aration I v th e p of this catalogue , ha e been enabled by b a o ch C . kindness of the artist and of M essrs . O and to examine every impression of every plate before they were m e dispersed at all , so that the record of states is co pl te , and the number of impressions of each stat e is also 1 0 known precisely . Before 9 4 there is occasionally some m uncertainty as to the quantity of i pressions existing , m u but the nu ber given in the catalog e is usually precise , and in case of doubt the approximate number is fi xed as nearly as possible through records kept by the artist . m I n the enu eration of states , trial proofs have been distinguished from published states whenever the plate can be said to have been published at all . I should consider such - a division indefensible if the states within the series of trial proofs were not themselve s numbered . m This , however , has invariably been done , so that in any cases there is a double series of states , the trial states m being distinguished by letters , fro A onwards , the pub lish ed states by Roman numerals . This distinction has G been ignored in the case of the early lasgow etchings , which w ere sold ' b y the artist directly to his friends without reserving even the most un fi n is hed proofs if a m e . purchaser d sired to have the I t has been ignored , m again , in the case of so e later works which have been printed only in small numbers and have never been offered . S 1 0 e to the general public ince 9 4 , how ver , the great ’ m maj ority of M r . Bone s etchings have been issued ethodi b ach o . M . O C cally through essrs and , and it has then been his invariable practice to exclude trial proofs from the He m published issue . has reserved the for his own an d of m collection that his publishers , or presented the , if . further duplicates existed , to a friend The states , R m distinguished by oman nu erals , begin in each case at e the stage , determined by the artist , at which he consid rs m m the work suitable for sale , even though i prove ents may subsequently occur to him in the course of printing the edition . The alterations are rarely important , and m the quality of the i pressions throughout the states is , m as a rule , re arkably even , care being taken to destroy any inferior proofs , and to destroy the plate itself so soon i as it shows s gns of wear . The printing has been per m m for ed , with scarcely an exception , by the artist hi self, the delicate task of wiping the plate being never entrusted to other hands . The papers used for printing the early G lasgow etchings m were of the ost varied description , a thick white Van 1 0 n G elder paper being the commonest . I n 9 3 M n B o e ’ discovered at Messrs . Brooker s printing works a large stock I O of fi n e old J apanese paper of a dark creamy tint and silky texture admirably adapted for printing his dry points to ad v M .

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