Cleaning the Plough by Ernest Herbert Whydale
Cleaning the Plough
Ernest Herbert Whydale
Title
Cleaning the Plough
Artist
Ernest Herbert Whydale
1886 - 1952 (biography)Year
c. 1920
Technique
etching
Image Size
4 3/8 x 6 1/4" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower left
Edition Size
proof, edition not stated
Annotations
'From Herbert Whydale' and titled on old support sheetby Brochner
Reference
from the Georg Brochner collection
Paper
cream laid
State
proof
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
4275
Price
SOLD
Description
From the collection of Danish critic and author Georg Bröchner, who wrote for the British art magazine "The Studio" in the early 20th century.
Ernest Herbert Whydale was born in 1886, and he was an exception British painter and etcher. He studied art in both Birmingham and St. Leonards. He created his first etching in 1913 and continued through the 1930's. Whydale exhibited his paintings and etchings with both the Royal Acadmy and the Royal Engravers.
Whydale's art focused primarily on rural life. Scenes of ploughing, carting, farming, country markets and fairs figure prominently in his work. Whydale captured the disappearing English countryside especially in his etchings.