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Details
- Alternative title
- View at North Fremantle
- Place where the work was made
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Fremantle
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Western Australia
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1928
- Media category
- Materials used
- wood engraving, printed in black ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.6 x 23.2 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours Collection Benefactors 2023
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 134.2023
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Edith Trethowan
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About
Edith Trethowan was among the most prominent printmakers in Perth in the inter-war period. She learned etching from pioneering local artist Henri van Raalte and wood engraving from another local artist, Beatrice Darbyshire, who had returned from London in 1927 with the tools and enthusiasm for the medium.
Trethowan similarly pursued wood engraving as a technique. It had experienced a revival in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often in association with fine art book presses, or, as in Trethowan’s case, as individual works of art. Trethowan favoured landscape subjects depicting everyday scenes in the environs of Perth; this print depicts the marshalling yards of the Western Australian Government Railways in North Fremantle, a rare industrial subject for the artist.