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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>43. William Strang <BR>(1859-1921)</B><BR><I>Tinkers </I><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="-1">Etching and drypoint, 1882, 178 x 227 mm.
Fine impression on japan with small margins, apparently as published in <I>The Portfolio</I>, but possibly from a deluxe edition. Strang’s etchings resemble no one else’s, except perhaps the earlier work of Alphonse Legros – with whom Strang happened to study.
There is a dour, austere quality to his representations, the very opposite of sentimentality, that seems to set them off from the work of his compatriots and colleagues. A “tinker”is, of course, a repairer of pots and pans. But the word came to connote, in Ireland and perhaps also in Britain, a wanderer, an itinerant, a gypsy – and not in any positive sense.
Strang seems to have both meanings in mind here.
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