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Sketch after Cecil Lawson's "Swan and Iris" |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46889) | |
| Number: | 247 | |
| Date: | 1882 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 142 x 82 (1); 134 x 82 (2) mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | E. W. Gosse, 'Cecil Lawson, a Memoir', London, 1883 | |
| No. of States: | 6 | |
| Known impressions: | 32 | |
| Catalogues: | K.241; M.238 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (32) | ||
Sketch after Cecil Lawson's "Swan and Iris" dates from 1882. It dates from after the death of Cecil Lawson on 10 June 1882 (a portrait of Lawson is reproduced below) and is based on a painting by Lawson. It was published in Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), Cecil Lawson: A Memoir in 1883; the foreword is dated October 1882.
Portrait of Cecil Gordon Lawson ( 1851-1882), by H. Herkomer,
E.W. Gosse, Cecil Lawson: A Memoir (London, The Fine Art Society, 1883), frontispiece.
E.W. Gosse, Cecil Lawson: A Memoir (London, The Fine Art Society, 1883), frontispiece.