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Scottish Vernacular Cottages, "Evening Gossip" Print  Alec Fraser (b.1886-1939) (1 of 25)
W&W Antiques
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Scottish Vernacular Cottages, "Evening Gossip" Print Alec Fraser (b.1886-1939)

REF: 4032 - 080823 / LA456356
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Description
For sale is an atmospheric Late 19th Century Victorian print titled "Evening Gossip" by Alec Fraser produced between c.1886-1939. - The atmospheric Scottish vernacular scene of cottages against the moon-lit view, with two women talking in the centre by houses on the left, further three figures in the right middle distance, with ducks feeding in the stream running down the hill,  crescent reflecting in the sea in the background.  Likely from the end of the 19th or early 20th Century. - Aquatint is an etched printmaking technique that produces tonal effects by using an acid to erode into the printing plate creating sunken areas which then hold the ink. - Signed in lower margin in pencil by artist, with title. Alec Fraser. - Registered in the British Museum 1916,0125.4 (possibly miss-attributed to / under Alexander Fraser). - Under glass, mounted and framed. - Alec Fraser fl. 1900-1914 was an Aberdeen painter of seascapes and coastal scenes and landscapes in a broad manner.  He was also the uncle to Jackson Simpson who was the head of Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen.  Ready for a new home to provide decoration in a Scottish vernacular manner. * The listing is for the print only, the other items from W&W Antiques are for decorative scale / context only.  Please contact us for interest in multiple items.
measurements
Height:
39.5 cm
Width:
44.5 cm
declaration
W&W Antiques has clarified that the Scottish Vernacular Cottages, "Evening Gossip" Print Alec Fraser (b.1886-1939) (LA456356) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1900
condition
Please consider the photographs and description as a great record of the condition of this antique item.
location
This Scottish Vernacular Cottages, "Evening Gossip" Print Alec Fraser (b.1886-1939) is located in Moray (Elginshire), United Kingdom