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Robert Austin, printmaker

A Woman Praying, 1928

Description

Maker

  • Robert Austin, 1895-1973, British, printmaker

Title

A Woman Praying

Year

1928

Medium

Engraving on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Medium weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 20.2 x 15.7 cm (7 15/16 x 6 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--In pencil under image:(illegible signature). In Plate--In LC edge: R^S^A. Stamped under image in LC with 'MADE IN ENGLAND'

Identification

State

State: x/x

Edition

48/75

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Bequest of Dr. Charles H. MacDonald

Object Number

60.085.5

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions

February 15 - August 4, 2019

This engraving is one of many images Robert Austin made of men and women praying. He would have witnessed similar religious practice during his travels in Italy in the 1920s. Like the 15th-century artist Martin Schongauer—whom he admired, and on whose monogram he modeled his own—Austin used a system of outlines, dots, and crosshatching, but here the effect is quite different. The decorative quality of Schongauer’s print is completely absent in Austin’s brooding, more three-dimensional image. The woman depicted here seems to inhabit a convincing physical space as well as a state of mind.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is A Woman Praying with the accession number of 60.085.5. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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