Only proof. The inscription 'Only Proof 3rd State, (Trial)' is probably in the hand of Hubert Schröder who taught at Chiswick School of Art and printed some of Webb's plates. Webb worked alongside Schröder at Chiswick in 1928 after returning from his studies in Arbroath. See catalogue entry 18 in 'Joseph Webb, prints and working drawings', Gascoigne & Furst, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1989. The Black Rabbit was a public house near Arundel. See PR702 and WD388 for other works, by Graham Sutherland, of the same location
Quarry / chalk pit at Arundel; foreground, on the left, two haystacks, fencing and a figure holding a long stick, on the right, a tree, a muddy track and two quarrymen conversing one holding a pickaxe?; middleground, overgrown cliffs of the Black Rabbit chalk pit and four figures around two horses with a cart; background, two figures on a clifftop amongst trees. Etched in curvilinear line with an over-bitten foreground, some foul-biting and stopping out used for the lighter tones of the background
