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Details
- Other Titles
- La Grande Marine
L'Embouchure de la Tamise - Alternative title
- Around Gravesend
- Date
- (1883)
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint, drypoint and roulette
- Edition
- vi of 8 states
- Dimensions
- 25.7 x 34.5 cm platemark
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., [incised plate] "FB". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Iphy Kallinikos 2017
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 121.2017
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Félix Buhot
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About
On a trip to England in 1883, Buhot drew a number of harbor scenes, one of which served as a preliminary sketch for this print. In this view of the Thames the etching describes the cloud formations and changing light of an oncoming storm. It documents a phenomenon of the time: steamers too large to travel up the Thames to London docks had to unload cargo onto smaller river craft downstream.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Henri Béraldi, Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1885-1892, vol 4 (1886), p 33, no 157.
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Gustave Bourcard and James Goodfriend, Félix Buhot. Catalogue descriptif de son oeuvre grave, 1979, pp 98–99, no 157.
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Jay McKean Fisher, Colles Baxter and Jean-Luc Dufresne, Félix Buhot peintre-graveur, prints, drawings, and paintings, Baltimore, 1983, p 112, no 74.
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Provenance
Annandale Galleries, 1989, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Anne Gregory bought the print in auction, Drouot Paris in Sept-Nov 1989 and sold it to the present owner soon after.
