Winifred Austen RI RE - Early 20th Century Etching, Swallow

Description

Winifred Austen RI, RE - Original Early 20th Century Etching. An etching of a Swallow. Pencil signed lower right. Monogrammed in the plate. With a soflt diagonal crease as shown. On wove, not laid down. Some mount burn outside the plate as shown.

Size

Size: 18.8 x 14cm (7.4" x 5.5")
Sheet: 24 x 18cm (9.4" x 7.1")
Plate: 19.8 x 14.8cm (7.8" x 5.8")

Collection Information

Winifred Marie Louise Austen R.I.,R.E. 1876- 1964. Illustrator, painter, etcher and aquatint engraver of birds and animals. Born in Ramsgate, Kent. In 1902 Austen was elected to the Society of Women Artists, in 1907 to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and in 1933 to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. A fellow of the Royal Zoological Society from 1903. Although reclusive, Austen was keenly involved with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Havergate Island bird sanctuary. . In 1899 at the age of twenty-three Austen showed a picture of a lion at the Royal Academy; in all she exhibited more than seventy pictures at the academy, the last in 1961 when she was eighty-five.