1900s SIGNED Mezzotint Etching LENA GEORGE Acropolis of Athens PROVENANCE Rare ART
Ca. early 1900s. Original mezzotint/etching signed by the artist in pencil on loser right. Framed under glass. Frame size is about 19 ¾ x 16 ½ inches. Light foxing/spotting. Very nice antique condition.
Very interesting note on back by previous owner: “The Acropolis, Athens. Ca. 1900. Acquired by Ellen Bosanquet (nee Hodgkin) – cousin of my father who gave it to me. Ellen’s husband – Charles [i.e. Robert Carr] Bosanquet was archaeologist there ca. 1900-1913.”
Lena George (born name Annie Selena Buckley), was a British artist and was married to an architect, Walter Sykes George, who from 1906 to 1915 worked with the British School at Athens and joined several excavations in Macedonia and Constantinople researching Byzantine monuments.
He undertook extensive drawings of the Hagios Demetrios in Thessaloniki which became invaluable as the only extant drawings of the church when it burned down in the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917.
Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871–1935) was a British archaeologist, operating in the Aegean and Britain and teaching at the University of Liverpool from 1906 to 1920 as the first holder of the Chair of Classical Archaeology there.
He married Ellen Sophia Hodgkin (1875–1965), a history graduate from Somerville College, Oxford and daughter of Thomas Hodgkin (historian) and his wife Lucy, daughter of Sarah and Alfred Fox of Falmouth.
1900s SIGNED Mezzotint Etching LENA GEORGE Acropolis of Athens PROVENANCE Rare ART
Ca. early 1900s. Original mezzotint/etching signed by the artist in pencil on lower right. Framed under glass. Frame size is about 19 ¾ x 16 ½ inches. Light foxing/spotting. Very nice antique condition.
Very interesting note on back by previous owner: “The Acropolis, Athens. Ca. 1900. Acquired by Ellen Bosanquet (nee Hodgkin) – cousin of my father who gave it to me. Ellen’s husband – Charles [i.e. Robert Carr] Bosanquet was archaeologist there ca. 1900-1913.”
Lena George (born name Annie Selena Buckley), was a British artist and was married to an architect, Walter Sykes George, who from 1906 to 1915 worked with the British School at Athens and joined several excavations in Macedonia and Constantinople researching Byzantine monuments.
He undertook extensive drawings of the Hagios Demetrios in Thessaloniki which became invaluable as the only extant drawings of the church when it burned down in the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917.
Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871–1935) was a British archaeologist, operating in the Aegean and Britain and teaching at the University of Liverpool from 1906 to 1920 as the first holder of the Chair of Classical Archaeology there.
He married Ellen Sophia Hodgkin (1875–1965), a history graduate from Somerville College, Oxford and daughter of Thomas Hodgkin (historian) and his wife Lucy, daughter of Sarah and Alfred Fox of Falmouth.
