St. Mary’s, Nottingham
One of Britain's last great participants in the Etching Revival, Griggs trained as an architect and only began to etch in his thirties. An admirer of Samuel Palmer's etchings, Griggs's imagery responds to England's medieval past, an affinity strengthened by his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1912. Campbell Dodgson has described the artist as "faithful to the Cotswolds, to [the village of Chipping] Campden, and to the Gothic architecture of England....[demonstrating] the slowly matured and mellowed outcome of contemplation and of a high purpose early formed and consistently pursued." This poetic image represents a fifteenth-century Gothic church cast into relief by low morning sunlight, with threads of rain passing the tower and a gravedigger at work in the yard, watched by another man.
Artwork Details
- Title: St. Mary’s, Nottingham
- Artist: Frederick Landseer Griggs (British, Hitchin, Hertfordshire 1876–1938 Chipping Campden)
- Date: 1928
- Medium: Etching; fourth state of four
- Dimensions: Plate: 7 1/2 × 10 3/8 in. (19 × 26.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 15 3/16 in. (31.3 × 38.5 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Pearlstein, 2018
- Object Number: 2018.911.2
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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