PALMA CATHEDERAL, MAJORCA

© The Artist's Estate

PALMA CATHEDERAL, MAJORCA 1937

Wilfred Fairclough (1907 – 1996)

Details

Dimension
16 X 22 CM
Media
ETCHING
Accession number
P2409

Summary

The work was undertaken in March 1936 whilst Fairclough was a Rome Scholar; the school was temporarily closed and the scholars visited Spain just before the start of the Civil War. Campbell Dodgson writing in Fine Prints of the Year (1938) described the work as ‘an elaborate and accurate etching, consistently carried out in closely laid and carefully bitten lines, of which the total effect is a little dull. The reproduction exaggerates some of the darker passages, especially the tracery of the rose windows.’