Hedge Laying

1945

Stanley Anderson

Associated Names
Stanley Anderson

Artist, British, 1884 - 1966

Miniature Print Society

Publisher

This is a monochrome drawing of a person working with trees. The individual is engaged in hedge-laying or trimming in a dense cluster of tall, leafless trees. The figure is surrounded by a ground littered with cut branches and tools. The background includes thatched structures and an expansive sky with flocks of birds. The drawing captures a moment of rural labor.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.84 × 7.46 cm (3 7/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 18.89 × 14.61 cm (7 7/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.1511

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meyrick and Heuser 2015, no. 246

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

2015

  • Meyrich, Robert, and Harry Heuser. Stanley Anderson, Prints: a Catalogue Raisonné. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2015, pp. 248-249, no. 246.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: SA [the artist's monogram]; lower right in graphite: Stanley Anderson

Markings

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Watermarks

J. Whatman [partial]

Wikidata ID

Q77013222

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