32. Sir Frank Short
(1857-1945)

Per Horse-Power Per Hour, Whitby Harbour

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Per Horse-Power Per Hour

Per Horse-Power Per Hour, Whitby Harbour

Mezzotint, 1887, 137 x 214 mm., Hardie 105 proof on vellum, ex collection Axel Haig. A black, smeary, proof impression on vellum, apart from the edition of 50, signed in pencil and dedicated to the etcher Axel Haig; some old glue stains in the large margins and the vellum, as usual, slightly rippled. The vellum surface makes this impressionistic image even more so and the proof is clearly experimental in nature, the scene dissolving into near abstract patterns of black and gray. “The title,” wrote Short, “is a comment on the amount of coal being wasted by the clouds of smoke coming out of the funnel…I think I had been challenged by old engineering friends to make a picture with this title. But it was the form and tone that interested me.”

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