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[The bathers]

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Frederick Walker
1840-1875

[The bathers]

[London? : s.n., 186-]
wood engraving
image: approx. 133 x 75 mm, each
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1034
Notes
Title from the title given to Walker's painting of the same subject, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1867.
Working proof in 4 original "piece work" parts of a wood engraving after a design by Frederick Walker, the proofs pulled from the separate blocks before they had been assembled and joined to form a single finished cut.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography

Reproduced in: The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 130.

Classification
Department
Century prints