b/w drypoint
1920
7 x 9 5/6
signed in pencil
edition: 94
This image is referenced as Dodgson #374 and is from an edition of 94
The Solent, strait of the English Channel, between the mainland coast of the county of Hampshire, England, and the northwestern coast of the Isle of Wight. It extends eastward for 15 miles (24 km) from The Needles, a group of rocks west of the Isle of Wight, to Southampton Water, an inlet serving the port of Southampton; its breadth is between 1.75 and 4 miles (3 and 6 km). The strait is the submerged valley of a former eastward-flowing river of which the present Frome was headstream and the Itchen and Test were tributaries. East of The Solent, Spithead, the drowned eastern portion of the same valley, affords a safer approach to Southampton for large vessels. The mainland low coast is broken by the estuaries of the Beaulieu and Lym rivers; the coast of Wight, which rises more steeply, is cut by the Medina, Newton, and Yar estuaries.
Draughtsman, illustrator and painter Muirhead Bone was born in Partick, Glasgow, and trained as an architect. He attended evening classes at Glasgow School of Art and was self-taught as an etcher. In 1901 Bone settled in London, where he quickly established an international reputation, selling prints for large sums. The first artist to be appointed a War Artist in the First World War, he was also an official War Artist in World War Two. Architectural subjects dominate his printed work in addition to images showing industrialisation and urban development. The author of nearly 500 prints, Bone was knighted in 1937.
