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William Lionel Wyllie, R.A., R.I., R.E. 1851-1931.
London
London Bridge, London. 1924. Etching and drypoint. 6 3/8 x 14 3/4 (sheet 9 7/8 x 17 1/4). A rich impression with drypoint burr printed on cream-colored simili-japon paper. Signed in pencil. $975.
Custom House (London). Etching. 9 7/8 x 14 7/8 (sheet 13 7/8 x 8 1/2). A fine impression printed on simili-Japan paper. Signed in pencil. $1,500.
The Pool of London. c. 1915. Etching. 7 7/8 x 15 7/8 (sheet 11 x 14 7/8 x 21 1/4). Printed on the full sheet of simili-Japan paper Signed in pencil. $1,500.
The Thames and the Tower of London. 1924. Etching and drypoint. 6 3/8 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 1/4 x 17 1/4). A rich impression with drypoint burr printed on cream-colored simili-japon paper. Signed and titled in pencil. $975.
World War I
Our Fathers, To The Memory of the nameless Killed and Wounded. 1913. Set of 4 etchings. Each 12 1/4 x 8 1/4. Poem by Captain Ronald A. Hopwood. R.N. Each etching in fine condition, on the full sheet of cream wove paper. Each signed in pencil lower left. $1,250 the set.
Mediterranean Series.
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Mediterranean Series. 1913. Set of 6 drypoints. 6 1/4 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 7/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 160, #29. Printed on 'JW Whatman' cream wove paper. Each signed in pencil. Each in its original mount in the original presentation portfolio. $3,750 the set.
Gibraltar, Showing the Rock and the Warships Coming Out. 1913. Set of 6 drypoints. 6 1/4 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 7/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 160, #29. Printed on 'JW Whatman' cream wove paper. Each signed in pencil. Each in its original mount in the original presentation portfolio. $3,750 the set.
Villefranche. 1913. Set of 6 drypoints. 6 1/4 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 7/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 160, #29. Printed on 'JW Whatman' cream wove paper. Each signed in pencil. Each in its original mount in the original presentation portfolio. $3,750 the set.
Naples, Entrance to the Harbour. 1913. Set of 6 drypoints. 6 1/4 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 7/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 160, #29. Printed on 'JW Whatman' cream wove paper. Each signed in pencil. Each in its original mount in the original presentation portfolio. $3,750 the set.
Mount Vesuvius, from the Sea. 1913. Set of 6 drypoints. 6 1/4 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 7/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 160, #29. Printed on 'JW Whatman' cream wove paper. Each signed in pencil. Each in its original mount in the original presentation portfolio. $3,750 the set.
Malta, Valetta. 1913. Set of 6 drypoints. 6 1/4 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 7/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 160, #29. Printed on 'JW Whatman' cream wove paper. Each signed in pencil. Each in its original mount in the original presentation portfolio. $3,750 the set.
The Pyramids from the Nile, showing Native River Craft and Nile Passenger Boats. 1913. Set of 6 drypoints. 6 1/4 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 7/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 160, #29. Printed on 'JW Whatman' cream wove paper. Each signed in pencil. Each in its original mount in the original presentation portfolio. $3,750 the set.
W.L.Wyllie was an artist in oil, watercolour, etching and aquatint of marine and tidal Thames subjects. Born in London, he studied art at the Heatherleys in 1865, and at the Royal Academy Schools between 1866-69, winning the Turner Medal 1869. Wyllie took up etching in 1883 when Robert Dunthorn commissioned an etching of Wyllie's painting 'Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth on a flowing Tide', which celebrated the industrial Thames, and had had great success at the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, being bought by the Chantrey Bequest. He lived in Portsmouth for many years from 1907 and died in London on 6th April 1931. Acknowledged as one of the leading marine artists at the turn of the century. Marine painter to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Ryde. Work in the National Maritime Museum.
A critic in 1889 wrote in the Magazine of Art "Mr Wyllie...depicts the Thames as it is, with all its grime and much of its wonder, all its business and something of its pathos...prosperity, and its enormous testimonies to the dark romance of these coal-and-iron times".
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