East Blatchington
Medium
drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 11.5 x 17.6 cm (4 1/2 x 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 20 x 25.8 cm (7 7/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis
Accession Number
1942.6.10
Art Historical Context
**East Blatchington** is a delicate drypoint etching by Sir Muirhead Bone, in 1908 and now housed in the National Gallery Art, Washington, D.C., thanks to the generous gift of Miss Elisabeth Ais. Bone, a renowned Scottish artist and pioneer of the early 20-century etching revival, captured the quiet charm of East Blatch, a picturesque village in East Sussex,. This intimate print, with its modest plate size of 11.5 x 17.6 cm, invites viewers into a serene rural scene, evoking the Edwardian era's fascination with Britain's pastoral landscapes. Drypoint, Bone's favored medium, involves scratchin...
About the Artist
Sir Muirhead Bone
Sir Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), born David Muirhead Bone in Partick, Glasgow, to a journalist father and descended from a family of printers, showed early artistic promise. Apprenticed at fourteen first as a porcelain painter and then as an architect's draughtsman for four years, he honed his draughtsmanship while attending evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art under teachers Archibald Kay a...