Elizabeth Harvey-Lee
THEODORE ROUSSEL (1847-1926)
Port of Fowey, in an original Roussel etched Phaeton Pattern frame
(1908 to 1911 England)
Artists/Makers/Factories
THEODORE ROUSSEL (1847-1926)
Medium
Original etching
Signed/Inscribed/Dated
The etching plate signed, and the impression signed in pencil on the tab. The frame with four etched signatures.
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Width
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168.00mm wide
[6.61 inches wide]
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Height
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140.00mm high
[5.51 inches high]
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Framed Width
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405.00mm
[15.94 inches wide]
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Framed Height
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281.00mm
[11.06 inches high]
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Provenance
Agnes Ethel Mackay, niece of Roussel's second wife, who after her aunt's death in 1917 acted as housekeeper and studio assistant to Roussel.
Exhibition History
This frame lent by Agnes Mackay to the Roussel Memorial ehibition at Goupil in 1927, the year after the artist's death.
The associated labels are still on the reverse of the frame.
Condition
The trimmed etching is laid down on its backing sheet.
Description / Expertise
Original etching 1911 (Reference Hausberg 98)
and original 'etched' frame 1907-08 (Reference Hausberg 166)
The etching trimmed, as usual, to the plate except for a 'tab' for the pencil signature. Roussel holidayed in Cornwall in 1911.
Roussel was exceptional in etching patterned strips which he cut to form paper segments to glue onto wooden mouldings to make the finished complementary frame to some of his etchings. Only about 10 frames in each design were ever made and it is not known how many have survived. They are rarely found. The frame has an etched signature on each return side.
(The reflection of the photographer is just visible in the glass of the frame)
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