William Gale - The May Wreath

The May Wreath (Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club)

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The Junior Etching Club (1857-1864), was an institution that greatly contributed to the revival of Etching in England. Members included such prominent British artists as, Sir John Everett Millais, James McNeill Whistler, Sir Francis Powell, Henry Moore, Sir John Tenniel, Charles Samuel Keene, Joseph Clark, John Wright Oakes, Walter Severn, William Gale, Frederick Smallfield, Henry Clarence Whaite, Matthew James Lawless, Arthur James Lewis, Henry Stacy Marks, Charles Rossiter, Vincent Bury, Lord G. Fitzgerald, J. R. Clayton, John Sleigh, and Lord Gerald Fitzgerald. The Junior Etching Club often published their members’ etchings and all of the above named artists contributed to their portfolio, Passages from Modern English Poets, first published by Day & Son Limited, Lithographers & Publishers, London, 1862. In total, that publication contained forty-seven original etchings. The Junior Club also issued, another important publication in 1858, Passages from the Poems of Thomas Hood published by E. Gambart & Co, London. It was also illustrated by its members and contained thirty-four plates.
#	Artist Last Name	Image	Title & Artist	Artist Info	Medium	Date	Source
01.-	Barwell		Sea Beach - Norfolk Fisherman on the Look Out (The Fisherman) by Frederick Bacon Barwell	Frederick Bacon Barwell (London, c. 1831 - 1922)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
02.-	Clark		Hagar and Ishmael by Joseph Clark	Joseph Clark (Cerne Abbas (Dorset), 1834 - Ramsgate, 1926)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
03.-	Gale		The May Wreath by William Gale	William Gale (London, 1823 - 1909)	Original Etching	1861	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
04.-	Keene		Scene of the Plague in London, 1665 by Charles Samuel Keene	Charles Samuel Keene (Hornsea, 1823 - London, 1891	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
05.-	Lawless		Sisters of Mercy by Matthew James Lawless	Matthew James Lawless (Dublin, 1837 - Bayswater, 1864)	Original Etching	1859	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
06.-	Lawless		The Little Shipwrights by Matthew James Lawless	Matthew James Lawless (Dublin, 1837 - Bayswater, 1864)	Original Etching & Aquatint	1859	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
07.-	Lewis		The Cornfield by Arthur James Lewis	Arthur James Lewis 'Arthur Lewis' (London, 1824 - 1901)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
08.-	Millais		Summer Indolence by John Everett Millais	John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
09.-	Moore		Moonlight by Henry Moore	Henry Moore (York, 1831 - Margate, 1895)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
10.-	Oakes		The Last Gleam of Day by John Wright Oakes	John Wright Oakes (Middlewich (Cheshire), 1820 - London, 1887)	Original Drypoint & Etching	1859-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
11.-	Powell		The Rainbow by Sir Francis Powell	Sir Francis Powell (Pendleton, 1833 - Dunoon, Scotland, 1914)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
12.-	Rossiter		St. Valentine's Day by Charles Rossiter	Charles Rossiter (London, 1827 - 1897)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
13.-	Severn		Nearing Home by Walter Severn	Walter Severn (Frascati (near Rome), 1830 - London, 1904)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
14.-	Smallfield		Supping on Horrors by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
15.-	Smallfield		The Shoe-Black by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
16.-	Smallfield		Winter Revels by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
17.-	Tenniel		War and Glory by Sir John Tenniel	Sir John Tenniel (London, 1820 - 1914)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
18.-	Whaite		Study of a Head by Henry Clarence Whaite	Henry Clarence Whaite (Manchester, 1828 - Conwy Valley, Wales, 1912)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
19.-	Whistler		The Punt by James McNeill Whistler	James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, MA, 1834 - London, 1903)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
20.-	Whistler		Sketching by James McNeill Whistler	James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, MA, 1834 - London, 1903)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.

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Title:	The May Wreath
Artist:	Gale, William (London, 1823 - 1909)
Date:	1861
Medium:	Original Etching
Publisher:	Day & Son in London
Edition:	Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
Note:	William Gale: A London painter and etcher of genre scenes and historical and biblical compositions, William Gale was a student of the Royal Academy Schools. He exhibited his art at both the British Institution and the Royal Academy from 1844 to 1893. Well traveled, William Gale visited Italy (1851), Syria (1862), Palestine (1867) and Algeria (1876-77). A large number of his works portrays the peoples of these regions.
	Earlier works by William Gale were usually executed in the Pre-Raphaelite style. Such is clearly the case in the original etching, The May-Wreath.
	Today the art of William Gale will be found in such collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the British Museum and the Tate Museum, London. The Philadelphia Museum of Art includes an impression of "The May Wreath" in its permanent collection, Accession Number: 185-52-21972.
	William Gale was a full member of the Junior Etching Club (1857-1864), an institution that greatly contributed to the revival of etching in England. Other members included the British artists, Sir John Everett Millais, Sir Francis Powell, Henry Moore, Charles Keene, Matthew James Lawless, Walter Severn, Henry Stacy Marks, Frederick Smallfield, Henry Clarence Whaite and James McNeill Whistler. The Junior Etching Club often published their members’ etchings and most member artists contributed to their most important portfolio, Passages from Modern English Poets, printed and published during the years 1861 and 1862.
	An original etching by William Gale, The May Wreath, was printed and published in 1862 by Day & Son, London, for the Junior Etching Club portfolio entitled, Passages from Modern English Poets. In total forty-seven original etchings were contributed by members for the portfolio. As was often the case in the mid nineteenth century Britain, literature and art were often placed side by side. Wood engraving and etching served to illustrate various passages of prose or poetry and anthologies such as Passages from Modern English Poets contained contributions from various authors and artists. William Gale's The May - Wreath illustrates a poem of the same title by Felicia Hemans (1793-1835). The first stanza is quoted below: "Hast thou been in the woods with the honey bee, Hast thou been with the lamb in the pastures free; With the hare through the copses and dingles wild, With the butterfly over the heath, fair child? Yes; the light fall of thy bounding feet Hath not startled the wren from her mossy seat; Yet hast thou ranged the green forest dells, And brought back a treasure of buds and bells." *Felicia Hemans
	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1793 -1835): A poet and writer born in Liverpool in 1793, Felicia Hemans, nee Browne, published her first book of poems in 1808 at the age of fourteen. Works published by Hemans include, England and Spain; or Valour and Patriotism (1808), The Domestic Affections and other Poems (1812), The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy (1816), Modern Greece (1817), The Vespers of Palermo (1823), the only play to be preformed, Hymns on the Works of Nature, for the Use of Children (1827), Records of Woman and Songs of the Affections (1830), and many other poems and works dealing with concerns of women and children. Felicia Hemans died in Dublin, Ireland at the age of forty one in 1835. In 1836, "Memorial of Mrs. Hemans", with Illustrations of Her Literary Character from her Private Correspondence by Henry F. Chorley was published in two volumes by Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. This original etching entitled, The May Wreath illustrates a poem of the same title by Felicia Hemans.
	Day & Son, London: Some of the most ambitious and accomplished printmaking projects of the Victorian era were launched by the publishers, Day & Son. The firm began in the mid 1820's under the title of 'Day & Hague' and assumed its more familiar name 'Day & Son, London' in 1845. William Gale's original etching, The May Wreath was published by 'Day & Son, London' between 1861-62. Throughout their early years they printed and published works of art dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as, hunting scenes, genre depictions, landscape scenes and topographical views.
Size:	3 7/8 X 5 7/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $295.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon wove paper and with full margins as published in Passages from Modern English Poets in 1862. Bearing the artist's name, "W. Gale" and the publisher's date and name, "London, Published December 1st, 1861 by Day & Sons, Lith. to the Queen" along the lower margin of the plate. It also bears the plate's number "38" to the upper right corner of the margin above the image. This impression is in excellent condition throughout without a trace of staining or fading. The May Wreath represents a fine, original example of the Victorian era art of William Gale.
Subject:	William Gale, The May Wreath , poem by Felicia Hemans, original etching, Passages from Modern English Poets, Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), Day & Son, Pre-Raphaelite style, Victorian era art.
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