Frederick Landseer Griggs
(England 30 Oct 1876–1938)
- Title
- The Almonry
- Year
- 1925
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Edition
- v of 7 states
- Dimensions
-
24.3 x 16.7cm platemark; 26.5 x 18.5cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. sheet, pencil "F.L. Griggs" and l.r., [incised plate] "FLG". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 2001
- Accession number
- 365.2001
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Griggs worked on the copper plate of 'The Almonry' for many months before it was ready to print, resulting in his most elaborate composition. The aerial perspective - the illusion of a wintry atmosphere, through which we can see the pinnacles and buttresses of the church in the distance - is a marvel of technical achievement. This scene of Gothic buildings, peopled with waits and poor travellers, under freshly fallen snow, is Griggs' most magical evocation of Medieval England.
- Bibliography (5)
-
Peter Raissis (Australia) (Author), Whistler to Freud: Etchings in Great Britain, Domain, 2001, (illus.). cat.no. 36
Jerrold Northrop Moore (United States of America) (Author), F.L. Griggs: The Architecture of Dreams, Oxford, 1999, cover (illus.), 170-172, 173 (illus.), 174-175, 178-179. figure 100
Francis Adams Comstock (Author), A Gothic vision: F. L. Griggs and his work, Boston, 1966, 23, 154-157, 158 (illus.). no. 34
'The later etched work of F.L. Griggs, R.A.' by Campbell Dodgson, The print collectors' quarterly, 20 1933, 1933, 326-328, 329 (illus.).
'Introduction' pg.1-10, Modern masters of etching: F.L. Griggs, A.R.A., R.E. 1926, 1926, 6, 10, (illus.). plate XII
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Whistler to Freud: etching in Great Britain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 24 Aug 2001–11 Nov 2001.
