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Sketch after Cecil Lawson's "Swan and Iris"

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46889)
Number: 247
Date: 1882
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 142 x 82 (1); 134 x 82 (2) mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: E. W. Gosse, 'Cecil Lawson, a Memoir', London, 1883
No. of States: 6
Known impressions: 32
Catalogues: K.241; M.238
Impressions taken from this plate  (32)
Sketch after Cecil Lawson's "Swan and Iris" dates from 1882. It dates from after the death of Cecil Lawson on 10 June 1882 (a portrait of Lawson is reproduced below) and is based on a painting by Lawson. It was published in Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), Cecil Lawson: A Memoir in 1883; the foreword is dated October 1882.
Etching: c_K241_01
Portrait of Cecil Gordon Lawson (1851-1882), by H. Herkomer,
E.W. Gosse, Cecil Lawson: A Memoir (London, The Fine Art Society, 1883), frontispiece.