Harmony
After Sir Frank Dicksee British
Etcher Charles-Albert Waltner French
Publisher Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd.
Not on view
Dicksee's sole contribution to the Royal Academy in 1877 was an immediate success for the artist; it was bought for the national collection at Tate. He had only made his debut there the year before. Set in a medieval interior, a young woman plays at an elaborate organ accompanied by a rapturous male companion. Many details of the painting were meticulously researched. The stained-glass window behind the couple, for example, is based upon an early example in the church of St. Mary the Virgin in Westwell, Kent. Waltner's masterful print is based upon a second reduced version of "Harmony" from 1887 (made specifically for reproduction), now in the Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley.
