International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

The Etchings of Sir J. C. Robinson

“FISHER FOLK”
and Albert Museum had diverted him from the
practical to the critical side of his subject. It was

the personal inspiration of
that greatest of amateurs,
Seymour Haden, who is
but six years Robinson’s
senior, that did most to
attract him towards this
medium. Some tentative
plates date from the middle
of the ’sixties, but his
etched work cannot be said
to have started in earnest
until about 1871. Then
between 1880 and 1892 we
have nothing from his hands,
no doubt due in some
measure to the Claims of his
Position as Queen’s Sur-
veyor of Pictures. Finally,
during the last ten years,
in his retirement at Newton
Manor, Swanage, he has
given proof of an una-
bated strength in some
BY W. LEE HAN KEY Qf fris m0St pOWerful prO-
ductions.
Throughout his work one aim has been kept
consistently in view : to depict the atmosphere, in



: GREYHOUND INN, CORI'E CASTLE ”

FROM TUE ETCHING BY SIR J. C. ROBINSON

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