8. Sir Frank Short
(1857-1945)

A Lane in Arundel

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A Lane in Arundel

A Lane in Arundel

Etching, 1907, 208 x 251 mm., Hardie 333. A very fine impression with plate tone on simili-japon paper with full margins, signed in pencil. Clearly one of Short’s finest etchings, the plate owes a certain debt to Rembrandt, in its placing of the background landscape at the right only, the left of the plate being reserved for the trees of the middle ground and only clouds in the distance. This has the effect of turning the foreground hill and houses clockwise in space, thus emphasizing the turn in the lane and giving enormous depth to the composition.. Arundel is a small market town in West Sussex.