Frederick Landseer Griggs, R.A., R.E. 1876-1938.
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Memory of Clavering. 1934. Etching. Comstock 51.iii/iv. 6 7/8 x 9 1/4 (sheet 7 5/16 x 9 1/4). Edition 68 in this state (total 98 proofs). Illustrated Print Collector's Quarterly 26, 1939; Fine Prints of the Year, 1934. A rich impression with plate tone printed on laid paper from an antique volume. Signed and initialed in pencil. $3,750.
Comstock writes: 'Clavering is a village in north-west Essex, about six miles from Walden--it is only eighteen miles from the artist's home town, Hitchin--in a part of East Anglia particularly loved by Griggs in his early excurisions. In 1919 he revisited this peaceful spot in the company of his friends the Shelvokes, when they were making one of several rambling tours, and when eventually he called forth this astonishingly vivid memory of the places, in 1934, he dedicated the plate to them...To Russell Alexander: 28 Aug: 1934. Memory of Clavering is having a huge success--can't keep pace with the demands of prints! And undoubtedly will be sold out before Christmas.'
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