Julian TREVELYAN Chiswick Eyot  (1971)

Etching and aquatint from two steel plates and one stencil in four colours: green, grey, red and yellow on Mouldmade TH Saunders wove paper. Signed Julian Trevelyan in pencil lower right, titled, and numbered from the limited edition of 75 lower left (there were also 16 Artist's Proofs). Image size: approx 350mm x 479mm. Published by Leslie Waddington Prints Ltd and printed by Studio Prints. Referenced in Turner, Julian Trevelyan Catalogue Raisonne of Prints, 243.

In very good, bright and clean condition with strong colours and full margins (please note that the print is UNFRAMED). Chiswick Eyot in the Tate Gallery collection. There is also a copy in the City Art Gallery, Leeds.

A beautifully coloured, paired down almost abstract Julian Trevelyan image of Chiswick Eyot, a river island on the Thames overlooked by Chiswick Mall, where Julian Trevelyan and his wife Mary Fedden set up their Durham Wharf studio in the 1950s.

The naturalist CJ Cornish wrote in 1902 that the river bank of Chiswick Mall beside the eyot had once been a 'famous fishery'; he recorded that 'perhaps the last' salmon was caught between the eyot and Putney in 1812, and expressed the hope that if the 'purification' of the river continued, the salmon might return. He noted that people had 'taken' the wild irises from the eyot, but that marsh marigold, camomile, comfrey, ragged robin, buttercups and many composites still grew there. [from Wikipedia]