Zwei Landschaften
Print
1897 (published)
1897 (published)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Etchings, two landscapes on one sheet, from a volume of the Munich branch of the 'Verein für Original-Radierung' (Society for Original Etching) containing 11 plates and a title page (E.4469 to E.4479-1897).
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Zwei Landschaften (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Etching |
| Brief description | Etchings by S. L. Wenban from a volume of 11 prints published by 'Verein für Original-Radierung München', volume 6. Germany, 1897. |
| Physical description | Etchings, two landscapes on one sheet, from a volume of the Munich branch of the 'Verein für Original-Radierung' (Society for Original Etching) containing 11 plates and a title page (E.4469 to E.4479-1897). |
| Bibliographic reference | The following summary review of the artist appeared in The Studio, Volume 62, Issue: 254, June 1914, P. 82:
Wenban's name is little known to amateurs of etching in England. He was the son of English parents, and born at Cincinnati, U.S.A., in 1848. The earlier part of his life was devoted to drudging in the studios of various photographers in Cleveland and Chicago, retouching photographs, and drawing the crayon portraits, in the photographer's manner popular in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Happily he joined his friend Otto Bacher in a pilgrimage to Europe in 1878, and thereafter remained in Munich or the neighbourhood for the rest of his life. He kept almost exclusively to landscape, both as painter, draughtsman, and etcher, but secured little recognition until quite the end of his life, and then only a limited circle. He cannot, we think, be regarded as a great individuality, nor take high rank as an etcher. Occasionally his etching fails through overloading with detail, through a certain prettiness, which shows some kinship with the weaker kind of Seymour Haden's etchings, such as the Rivers in Ireland.' |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.4470-1897 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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