Eton

Method Etching
Artist Francis S. Walker
Published John C. Nimmo, London, 1891.
Dimensions Image 185 x 125 mm, Plate 204 x 140 mm, Sheet 284 x 221 mm
Notes An atmospheric view of the Eton from across the Thames with a man fishing in the foreground from one of 250 copies of William Senior's The Thames from Oxford to the Tower.

Francis S Walker (1848 - 1916) was an Irish draughtsman on wood, mezzotint engraver, etcher, genre and landscape painter. He moved to London in 1868 to work as a wood-engraver for the Dalziel brothers. In 1880 he began to make etchings, and in 1897 was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.

Condition: Fine impression. An etching of a flag in the margin.
Framing unmounted
Price £45.00
Stock ID 48867

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