JUNIOR ETCHING CLUB [Illustrators]

Passages from Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club

London: William Tegg, [1876]. 4to. (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches). 96 pp., 47 lithograph plates on 45 sheets.

Publisher's red cloth, gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine.

A delightful volume of lithographic plates by the Junior Etching Club, a prestigious organization instrumental in the revival of etching in late-Victorian England, with illustrations by James McNeil Whistler and others.

'Passages from Modern English Poets, was issued by Day and Son, in 1862, in a large octavo. In 1876 another edition in large quarto, with etchings transferred to stone, and printed as lithographs, was published by William Tegg. In this notable volume Millais is represented by Summer Indolence, a most graceful study of a girl lying on her back in a meadow with a small child, who is wearing a daisy chain, seated at her side. Mr. J. McNeill Whistler contributes two delightful landscapes, The Angle and A River Scene. "Summer Indolence" by famed Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais derives from a figure in Millais's painting "Spring (Apple Blossoms)." The Etching Revival and Pre-Raphaelite Movement shared many comonalities, as new artistic forms in the Victorian Era. These groups held artists in common as well as close ties with literature, especially poetry. Communing the poetry of authors Lord Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson, etc with new expressive etchings, Passages from Modern English Poets encompasses a whimsical artistic and literary facet of the Victorian Era.

Gleeson White, English illustration, 'The Sixties': 1855-70; "A Selection of Etchings by the Etching Club," The Met.

Item #40759

Price: $450.00