WAR-TIME VOGUE
ETCHINGS OF BOMBED LONDON
SOUTH AMERICAN DEMAND A war-time vogue for British etchings has sprung up in South America. In peace-time the chief demand for them came from the lands now temporarily occupied, by Hitler. The T don Etching Society has thei” turned its attention, and with su to South America. Oxford, Cambridge, the country of Shakespeare, the Derbyshire Peaks, the Lake District, the Trossachs and wild mountainous Ireland are all subjects which are appealing to .South America to-day.
“Hyde Park Corner,” by Henry Rushbury, A.R.A., as a real London scene in time of war, is particularly popular. Other favourites are Gerald Brockhurst, R.A., the famous portrait painter who is also a well-known etcher, and Sydney R. Jones whose etchings of Lincoln’s Inn and the Temple include historic buildings now lying in rubble.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 50, Issue 3055, 28 March 1941, Page 7
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