1924 Etching in black on pale green speckled laid paper
113 x 137 mm. Purchase: The 21 Gallery 1924
From an edition of 19? In 1928 the 21 Gallery recorded 15 proofs of one state. Gordon Cooke in 'Graham Sutherland: Early Etchings' records 19 impressions in the only recorded state. This work has the inscription '2nd state' but appears identical to that illustrated in Cooke's catalogue
Poling Pottery; foreground, a wheel and a thick wall of concrete and brick construction; middleground, a figure standing by two partly overgrown pottery kilns with steps, planks, a wheel and chains; background, distant fields and a rooftop with a smoking chimney the smoke blown downwards by a strong wind; sky; five birds in flight. Etched in varied line of equal width including cross hatching. Scratches and stipple marks in the sky
