Size: Frame 59 x 58.5 cm, image to platemark 40 cm square.

Condition: Print in excellent condition, very good used mount and frame.

This is a very accomplished etching with aquatint applied over resist, printed in colours "a la poupée".  It is signed by the artist bottom right, numbered 39 of 75 proofs and titled "A FIeld Near Verham Dene". Verham Dene is a village in Hampshire.

Frances St. Clair Miller was born in 1947 and educated in London, and was a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, from 1965 until 1969. She furthered her mastery of printmaking during the boom in art printmaking in the 1960s and 1970s., working at Studio Prints in London where work by many renowned etchers was printed.  She continues today to produce her own prints, mainly based on the landscape in Herefordshire where she lives, and to teach printmaking. She has exhibited widely and her work is held in various public galleries.

Provenance:  The Derbyshire Museums Loans Service, a pioneering collection of pictures, sculpture and other items which was created from the vision of Barbara Winstanley, who was its curator for many years.  The collection was built up from 1936 until the 1980's, and the items in it were available to schools and colleges in Derbyshire to borrow for educational purposes.  Many items for the collection were bought from the "Pictures for Schools" exhibition held in London every year from 1947 to 1962, and the collection included works by names that are today very well known, such as Edward Bawden, John Nash, Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden. The service was mothballed in 1990, and some items have been dispersed to other art institutions and museums.

Another proof of this print numbered 38/75, purchased 1972,  is held in the Government Art Collection.