etching on cream wove paper, signed in pencil, C. Stanley Pollitt, lower right, titled lower left, hinged into a contemporary thin card window mount, inscribed in pencil, Published at a guinea, lower right. The mount, only, with some fine spotting, damp-staining and surface dirt,
Pollitt (Charles Stanley)
The Aeroplane,
£150
, , c.1930.
a charming study of a young girl gazing skywards with an expression of awe. Charles Stanley Pollitt (1888-1965), painter and printmaker, was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelites having trained as the studio assistant of William Holman Hunt. Later he travelled and worked on the Continent, including as a copyist at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, then becoming Professor of English at the Vatican..
147 by 107mm (5¾ by 4¼ inches).


