Artwork Details
14-3/8 x 19-3/8 in. (image) 17-5/16 x 22-15/16 in. (sheet)
Accession NumberKurt F. Pantzer, Sr. Memorial Fund
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteTo give scale, a flock of gulls passes across the shadowed face of a fold in the chalky Downs of East Sussex known as Oxteddle Bottom. Short had mastered mezzotinting, the most laborious form of engraving, while completing Turner's Liber Studiorum forty years before.
"An artist must be a workman; and an artist afterward, if it please God."
-Frank Short, 1909
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
British Qualities: Works on Paper, 1875-1930
Indianapolis Museum of Art
February 16, 2008 - July 13, 2008
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