Prints / PR3497 Bellfry Steps 1935 Engraving 142 x 100 mm.Gift / Purchase: Clare Calder and Rachel Austin, London 2009show object description Interior scene; elderly figure climbing a narrow, spiralling, stone steps of the belfry/ bell tower whilst wearing a heavy overcoat with a fur lining / collar and carrying a large bunch of keys low around their neck. The figure’s face looks forward, both hands are used, stretched outwards onto the wall, to steady themselves. A rope dangles from the structural timber on the right of the image and a window opening arches behind the figure in the background. Detailed etching and stipple engraving, with some cross hatching?
Interior scene; elderly figure climbing a narrow, spiralling, stone steps of the belfry/ bell tower whilst wearing a heavy overcoat with a fur lining / collar and carrying a large bunch of keys low around their neck. The figure’s face looks forward, both hands are used, stretched outwards onto the wall, to steady themselves. A rope dangles from the structural timber on the right of the image and a window opening arches behind the figure in the background. Detailed etching and stipple engraving, with some cross hatching?
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