€70
Star lot :An atmospheric antique original Robert Elliott (b.1863 - d.1910) block print engraving featuring an urban landscape scene of Dublin's Four Courts as seen from the Liffey. Wonderfully observed and rendered in fine detail with great linework enhancing areas of shade. Signed bottom right and housed in a handsome black frame.
MM: 40 x 35 cm including frame. There is a video of this lot on our social media pages on Facebook, instagram and Tic Tok under South Dublin Auction.
Elliott, Robert Matthew Johnson (1863–1910), painter and critic, was born in England. Largely self-educated, he is reputed to have slept only four hours out of twenty-four, in order to pursue his study of art, literature and languages, while still finding time to write poetry. At the age of 25 he took courses in etching and painting in London. However, London was not to his taste and he settled in Dublin about 1891. He became a staunch supporter of the arts and crafts movement in Ireland, and is perhaps best known for his book Art and Ireland (1906), composed of articles previously published in papers such as the Freeman's Journal and the Leader, and later in the Irish Builder and Engineer and the Irish Rosary.
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