Axel Haig - 1890 Etching Arab Students, Cairo Egypt

Description

Axel Haig - Original 1890 Etching. Originally priced £900 (we think by Sanders of Oxford). From the collection of Christopher Lennox Boyd 95. Listed in "Axel Herman Haig and his Work" by E.A. Armstrong. Signed. Small marginal tears.

By Axel Haig (1835 - 1921), architectural watercolourist and etcher, the 'Piranesi of the Gothic Revival'. Born in Sweden, Haig worked Britain for William Burges and others.

Size

42 x 60cm (16.5" x 23.6")

Sheet: 69 x 99cm (27.2" x 39")
Plate: 44 x 62cm (17.3" x 24.4")

Collection Information

From the Christopher Lennox-Boyd collection. We recently acquired a number of fine Mezzotints previously owned by Chris Lennox-Boyd, owner of the finest collection of British Mezzotints in private hands. You can read more about him here.

You can see our full collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd here.

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