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Prints / PR1604

The Lagoon Shrine, Venice

Artist/Maker: Richards, Frederick Charles [1878-1932]



1914
Etching, on steel-faced copper, in black on cream wove paper

169 x 223 mm.
Loan: Gregynog, Davies sisters 1989

Fourth (final) state. Richards was working in Venice during September 1914. He made a drawing of the simple wooden shrine whilst waiting for a boat to an island across the lagoon. Richards wrote a poem about 'The Lagoon Shrine', where 'still the fisherman comes out and prays' to accompany the etching. Reference: W.J.T. Collins, 'Artist-Venturer - The Life and Letters of Fred Richards Etcher and Author', R.H. Johns Ltd., Newport). Exhibited at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1916



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