27. William Lee-Hankey
(1869-1952)
Le Repas

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Lee-Hankey, Le Repas

Le Repas

Etching and drypoint, 1920, 203 x 168 mm., Hardie 174. Lee-Hankey was a noted watercolorist and book illustrator (Goldsmith’s Deserted Village; Walton’s Compleat Angler) but the overwhelming majority of his etchings and drypoints were devoted to life in the coastal fishing village of Étaples in Northern France, in which he spent a considerable amount of time. While there are some fine and quite individual landscape prints, most are concerned with the people, who exhibit the kind of honesty and simplicity in living that was fast dying out in other, more developed areas. A very fine impression, with burr and plate tone, on heavy wove paper with full margins, signed in pencil and with the artist’s blind stamp, from the edition of about 100.