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Low tide and the evening star, and Rye's long pier deserted

Print
08/1888 (made)
Artist/Maker
Frank Short (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Etching depicting a view of Rye pier and the surrounding coast at low tide. Signed and inscribed with title. Plate cut up for etchings and engravings.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleLow tide and the evening star, and Rye's long pier deserted (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Paper
Etching
Brief description
Etching by Sir Frank Short depicting a view of Rye pier and the surrounding coast at low tide. Great Britain, ca. 1880-1919.
Physical description
Etching depicting a view of Rye pier and the surrounding coast at low tide. Signed and inscribed with title. Plate cut up for etchings and engravings.
Credit line
Presented by the Artist, in memory of his son, Captain Francis Leslie Short, who died on Active Service, June 3, 1916.
Subjects depicted
Tides
Coastal
Piers
Boats
Places depicted
Sussex
Rye
Bibliographic references
  • The following excerpt is taken from Hind, Arthur Mayger, Howard Coppuck Levis, and Joseph Pennell. A History of Engraving & Etching, from the 15th Century to the Year 1914; Being the Third and Fully Revised Edition of A Short History of Engraving and Etching. London: Constable, 1923: 'As Director of the engraving class at South Kensington, Frank Short represents a distinct tendency from that initiated at the Slade School by Legros. In the certainty of his technique he is perhaps unequalled, and he gives far more encouragement to the calmer study of processes, to the scientific calculations of strength and character of bitings and the like, than ever did Legros, who might retort that any recurrence of technical failure is nothing to the possible loss of freshness and spontaneity. It may be mentioned too that one of the disputed tenets of his school is the practice of steel facing the plate, which he declares makes no appreciable difference to the quality of his impression.'
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1919, London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2425-1919

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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