Etchings by Elizabeth Frink Illustrating Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
- Artist: Elizabeth Frink
- Published: 1972
- Publisher: Waddington Galleries, London
- Edition: 1 of 50
- Format: Leather Bound with Slipcase
- Height: 93cm
- Pages: 189
- Illustrations: Includes 19 Original Etchings
£4950.00
Add to basketEtchings by Elizabeth Frink Illustrating Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
SIGNED and numbered by Elizabeth Frink. De Tête Edition number A6 from an edition of 50 copies numbered A1 - A50.
Chaucers Canterbury Tales Illustrated with 19 original etchings by Elizabeth Frink Hand bound by Davall and Chown Limited, London in 1972. Fully bound in dark green English leather hide over 4mm boards with gold-blocked bird design on the front cover and inlaid with natural vellum. Blocked in black on the front with gold on spine and includes silk headbands and a protective lined art canvas slipcase covered with tissue.
A Rare huge folio measuring 93cm x 65cm with striking full page etchings by Elizabeth Frink depicting figures, animals and birds which characterised her work. The etchings were printed by Cliff White at White Ink Ltd, London and illustrate The Prologue, The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale I, The Miller's Tale II, The Reeve's Tale, The Shipman's Tale, The Prioress's Tale, Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topaz, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Summoner's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, The Merchant's Tale, The Squire's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, The Second Nun's Tale and The Manciple's Tale. The Canterbury Tales contains nineteen etchings drawn directly to the copper plate and etched by Frink with the actual book issued in three limited editions.
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Artists Biography
Elizabeth Frink was born in 1930 in Suffolk and became one of Britain's most eminent sculptors. Frink attended Guildford School of Art, followed by Chelsea School of Art and showed her first major exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London, when she was only twenty-two.
Throughout her lifetime she was known as one of the most accomplished sculptors of animal and human forms: men, dogs, horses and birds were a constant subject-matter throughout her career. Her graphic work and drawings followed the same themes, being executed with the simplicity and feeling for surface texture that is to be found in her sculptural work.
