Magdalen College, Oxford

Method Etching
Artist Axel Haig
Published 1886
Dimensions Image 472 x 328 mm Plate 490 x 340 mm, Sheet 670 x 510 mm
Notes A view of Magdalen College from the banks of the River Cherwell.

Signed in pencil.

Axel Haig R.E., (10 November 1835 – 1921) a Swede, who came to etching from architectural drawing specifically naval architecture. His earliest etchings showed the omission of the inessential, the hallmark of the new etchers but he soon found his feet making etchings suitable to be framed and put on the walls as rivals to paintings. His technique was different: look closely at a Haig Cathedral interior and you see a confused melee of lines, step back and you get the authentic gloom of the Middle Ages.

Lennox-Boyd 64
Framing unmounted
Price £750.00
Stock ID 37628

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