Charles Edward Wagstaff
The Golfers - A Grand Match at St Andrews - [GROUP]
About this artwork
Lees’s painting The Golfers was bought by the print seller Alexander Hill for £400. He engaged the highly skilled printmaker Wagstaff to engrave it and the print appeared in 1850. Hill’s profit from the engraving, produced in large numbers, would have been handsome and far in excess of the sum Lees received for the painting. Today copies of this famous print can be found in the club houses of celebrated golf clubs around the world.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Charles Edward Wagstaff (1808 - 1850) English
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title:The Golfers - A Grand Match at St Andrews - [GROUP]
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date created:Published 1850
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after:Charles Lees (1800 - 1880) Scottish
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materials:Stipple and line engraving on paper
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measurements:52.50 x 86.00 cm (framed: 86.90 x 116.80 x 2.60 cm)
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object type:
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credit line:Acquired between 1945 and 1948
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accession number:SP EXL 32
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