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I. 1st state of 2, extensively touched with pencil

II.c. Artist’s proof of 2nd and final state (Featured Image)

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E.080 Poet 1993

  • I. 1st state of 2

    Etching. A frontal portrait of Chris Wallace-Crabbe, showing the head and part of the shoulders. The subject is lightly etched, and the image has been touched extensively with pencil.

    Impression on wove paper, printed, and extensively touched with pencil, by Rick Amor in his Dunmoochin studio. Inscribed in pencil, below the plate mark: lower left: ‘1 [circled]’; lower centre: ‘CWC’; lower right: signed and dated ‘Rick Amor 93’.

  • I. 1st state of 2, extensively touched with pencil

    Etching. A frontal portrait of Chris Wallace-Crabbe, showing the head and part of the shoulders. The subject is lightly etched, and the image has been touched extensively with pencil.

  • II. 2nd and final state

    The pencilled amendments made in the first state have been carried here and appear in the hair, eyebrows, eyelids, nose, cheeks, ears and collar. The background at the level of the ears has been loosely etched, and three small oblique strokes have been added deep in the lower left corner. There are four variant impressions of this state.

    1. Impression on wove paper, printed by Rick Amor in his Dunmoochin studio. Inscribed in pencil, below the plate mark: lower left: ‘AP I’; lower centre: ‘Poet’; lower right: signed and dated ‘Rick Amor ’93’.
    2. Impression on wove paper, printed by Rick Amor in his Dunmoochin studio. Inscribed in pencil, below the plate mark: lower left: ‘AP II’; lower centre: ‘Poet’; lower right: signed and dated ‘Rick Amor ’93’.
    3. Impression on wove paper, printed by Rick Amor in his Dunmoochin studio. Inscribed in pencil, below the plate mark: lower left: ‘AP III’; lower centre: ‘Poet’; lower right: signed and dated ‘Rick Amor ’93’. (Featured Image)
    4. Impression on wove paper, printed by Rick Amor in his Dunmoochin studio. Inscribed in pencil, below the plate mark: lower left: ‘AP IV’; lower centre: ‘Poet’; lower right: signed and dated ‘Rick Amor ’93’.
  • II.c. Artist’s proof of 2nd and final state (Featured Image)

    The pencilled amendments made in the first state have been carried here and appear in the hair, eyebrows, eyelids, nose, cheeks, ears and collar. The background at the level of the ears has been loosely etched, and three small oblique strokes have been added deep in the lower left corner. There are four variant impressions of this state.

  • No edition

  • Comment

    This is the fourth of five portrait prints of Australian writers that in 1992 Amor was commissioned to make for the literary journal Overland.

    Chris Wallace-Crabbe (b. 1934) is a poet, literary and visual arts critic, and founding director, and now Professor Emeritus, of the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Wallace-Crabbe and Amor have known each other since the 1980s. This etched portrait was drawn directly onto the copper plate, at Wallace-Crabbe’s home in Carlton (Melbourne), when Wallace-Crabbe was fifty-nine years old.

    Although commissioned for Overland, the portrait was never reproduced there, because Amor was unhappy with his likeness of his subject and did not wish to take the etching beyond its initial two states.

    Amor’s other subjects for the 1992 Overland commission were Helen Garner (cat. no. E.068), Barry Hill (E.070), David Malouf (E.072) and Barrett Reid (E.081).

Etching. A frontal portrait of Chris Wallace-Crabbe, showing the head and part of the shoulders. The subject is lightly etched, and the image has been touched extensively with pencil.

The pencilled amendments made in the first state have been carried here and appear in the hair, eyebrows, eyelids, nose, cheeks, ears and collar. The background at the level of the ears has been loosely etched, and three small oblique strokes have been added deep in the lower left corner. There are four variant impressions of this state.

Catalogue Number
E.080
Title and Date
Poet 1993
Description of Featured Image
A frontal portrait of the poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe, showing the head and part of the shoulders.
Where Made
Dunmoochin, Cottles Bridge
Medium Category and Technique
Intaglio Print: Etching on copper
Support
Wove paper. Identified papers: No papers identified.
Dimensions
Image size: 301 x 200 mm
Matrix size: 301 x 201 mm
Artist’s Record Number
RAE.76
Printer(s) and Workshop(s)
All impressions printed by Rick Amor in his Dunmoochin studio, Cottles Bridge.
Summary Edition Information
Two states. No edition.
Collections
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne: one state impression, numbered 1; AP IV.
Comment

This is the fourth of five portrait prints of Australian writers that in 1992 Amor was commissioned to make for the literary journal Overland.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe (b. 1934) is a poet, literary and visual arts critic, and founding director, and now Professor Emeritus, of the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Wallace-Crabbe and Amor have known each other since the 1980s. This etched portrait was drawn directly onto the copper plate, at Wallace-Crabbe’s home in Carlton (Melbourne), when Wallace-Crabbe was fifty-nine years old.

Although commissioned for Overland, the portrait was never reproduced there, because Amor was unhappy with his likeness of his subject and did not wish to take the etching beyond its initial two states.

Amor’s other subjects for the 1992 Overland commission were Helen Garner (cat. no. E.068), Barry Hill (E.070), David Malouf (E.072) and Barrett Reid (E.081).

Keywords
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Portrait
URL
https://catalogue.rickamor.com.au/works/intaglio/poet/

Record last updated 04/08/2017
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