30. Henry Rushbury
(1880-1968)
On the Waveny

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Rushbury, On the Waveny

On the Waveny

Drypoint, 1917, 198 x 419 mm., Rushbury 30. Very fine impression on laid japan paper with uneven but full margins, signed in pencil from the edition of 50. Rushbury was another worthy follower of Muirhead Bone, though he began his artistic life as a worker in stained glass. He was taught etching and drypoint by Francis Dodd, who was Bone’s brother-in-law, and was fortunate enough to get introduced to some of the major print dealers, who took on his works and began his career. Though the technique is similar, this is a more austere image than Osborne’s. Plate tone here adds only a general bit of warmth (and not much of it), there is little sense of actual movement, and the image offers a less personal, more classical air. The Waveney is in the Norfolk Broads in England.