Original etching, by listed artist William Tatton Winter RBA, (1855 - 1928), published in 1924 by The Museum Galleries, London.

Depicting an old bridge and adjacent medieval timber framed houses by a river in France, probably Bordeaux as Winter is recorded as working there.

Fully pencil signed lower right margin and again in the plate lower left, with print sellers guild blind stamp lower left margin.

In original frame - has not been removed until now, since December 1928, when it was originally framed (see print seller's label verso).

Etching, printed in black ink on wove paper.

Plate size 36.5cm x 25cm, frame size 59.5cm x 47.5cm.

Original ebonised wood frame and single mount.

Etching in excellent original condition, a good strong impression with fine detail, (see photos). Frame has some old damage repaired to the bottom edge and slight nicks and scratches, mount with slight age toning (see photos).

Comes with our Certificate of Authenticity - guaranteed authentic and original.

Delivered ready to hang.

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William Tatton Winter RBA 1855 – 1928

British landscape painter in mainly watercolours and printmaker.

Tatton Winter was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire on 2 February 1855. His surname was really 'Winterbottom', but he shortened it to 'Winter' after becoming established as an artist to avoid confusion with another Northern artist of the same name, and signed his paintings 'W. Tatton Winter', or just 'Tatton Winter'.

Studied at the Bennett Street Schools in nearby Manchester, and later attended the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and the Antwerp Academy under Charles Verlat.

He moved to Carshalton, Surrey in 1883 and had a studio in North Street. Three year later he married Edith Constance Fox Hudson, the daughter of a Yorkshire solicitor, they moved into Rackham Cottage in Camden Road, Carshalton. Tatton Winter was introduced to the geologist Alfred Tylor of Shepley House, Carshalton, who was able to promote the artist's career by inviting him to give drawing lessons at Shepley House and introducing him to a number of influential patrons of the arts, including royalty, as well as the artist and art critic John Ruskin. While there he helped to found The Surrey Art Circle.

In 1897 the family moved to Reigate, where he carried on painting right up to his sudden death in 1928. During the fifteen or so years Tatton Winter spent in Carshalton he must have produced at least a hundred views of the area. He also helped to found the Surrey Art Circle, was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1896, and had his first painting exhibited at the Royal Academy: ‘A Breezy Upland, Sussex’ in 1889. Tatton Winter went on to exhibit extensively at all the major London and provincial galleries throughout his career, including 32 works at The Royal Academy and almost 300 works at the Royal Society of British Artists.