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Description: | I s. on plate "W.P. Robins"; s.d. in pencil b.l. "W.P.Robins 1930"; inscr. in pencil b.r. "To Harold Wright"; inscr. b.c. "W 186 St Nicholas-at-Wade, Kent (Trial Proof) but does not differ from published proofs of which there were 75 HW" CRE ROBINS, William Palmer; (English; 1882-1959) Born in Southwark, London in 1882. Printmaker active in a variety of techniques including etching, aquatint, drypoint, wood engraving, mezzotint and lithography.
Studied Architecture at Kings College, London; prize-winner in the History of Architecture 1899; studied art at St. Martin's, Goldsmith's College; learned the rudiments of etching at the Royal College of Art; elected Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1913 and fellow in 1917; member of the Printmakers' Society of California and the Chicago Society of Etchers; taught at St. Martin's School 1904-21 and later at the Central; author of Etching Craft, 1922; member of the Senefelder Club. Lived in Knebworth, Hertfortshire. Etched about 150 plates. Died in 1959.
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