Original lithograph, by the listed artist and writer Joan Zuckerman (1918 - 2000), created in 1973 in an edition of just 50 prints. 

Titled "Rectory Trees, Burnham Thorpe" depicting the belt of trees in the grounds of the old rectory (Lord Nelson's boyhood home, demolished in 1802), in the village of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk. This village was also home to the artist in her later life.

Signed and dated '73 lower right margin, numbered 32/50 and inscribed with the title lower left. Also inscribed verso by the artist "Love & best wishes from Solly & Joan, May 1976" - most likely given as a wedding present by the artist and her husband to Georgiana Russell, who married the following month.

Provenance: from a small collection of works previously the property of Lady Aliki Russell and her daughter Georgiana Russell. Sir John Wriothesley Russell GCVO CMG (22 August 1914 – 3 August 1984) was a British diplomat and ambassador. Georgiana Alexandra Russell was an ex-girlfriend of Prince Charles and is now Lady Brooke Boothby (married June 1976). 

Lithograph printed in black/brown ink on T H Saunders watermarked wove paper. In the original gilt wood frame with single mount.
Print in excellent original condition (see photo). Frame with some very slight nicks and scratches, mount clean (see photos). 

Image size; 22.5cm x 29.5cm, frame size 40.5cm x 54.5cm

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Joan Alice Violet Zuckerman, Baroness Zuckerman 1918 - 2000

British writer, painter and printmaker.

Zuckerman was born Lady Joan Alice Violet Isaacs on 19th July 1918 in Sussex. Her mother was the Honourable Eva Violet Mond, President of the National Council of Women. Her father was the politician Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading.

In 1939, Zuckerman married the scientist Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, OM, KCB, FRS (1904–1993). They were both friends with prominent members of the Labour Party including Hugh and Dora Gaitskell and Roy and Jennifer Jenkins. She was said to have a happy marriage. They had two children Paul and Stella. Stella died in 1992.

In 1950 she and her husband were involved with organising a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. Scientist Henry Tizard and Nobel laureate Patrick Blackett were among their house guests and formal attire was required.

The artist Alfred Cohen's wife Diana opened a gallery which made them friends. Diana gave Zuckerman an exhibition and the gallery were then surprised to receive a day's notice of a visit by the Queen Mother and her entourage.

In 1979 the book The Birmingham Heritage was published. She had co-written this with Geoffrey Eley. The book carried a foreword written by the politician, Roy Jenkins. She had an artist friend of hers to sketch Roy's portrait.

Zuckerman died in Burnham Thorpe on 25th March 2000. One of her paintings in the Sainsbury Centre collection.

Burnham Thorpe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is famous for being the birthplace of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, victor at the Battle of Trafalgar and one of Britain's greatest heroes. At the time of his birth, Nelson's father, Edmund Nelson, was rector of the church in Burnham Thorpe. Burnham Thorpe is located 19 miles north-east of King's Lynn and 31 miles north-west of Norwich.