William Strang
Casa Del Greco, Toledo
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National Galleries of Scotland collection. Photo, National Galleries of Scotland.
William Strang, Casa Del Greco, Toledo
About this artwork
This etching of Toledo a is from Strang’s ‘Seven Spanish Etchings’, which were published in portfolios by J. MacLehose and Sons and T. & R. Annan, Glasgow (1913). The series was the artist’s contribution to the fashionable genre of architectural etching and engraving, a subject area which, in general, he classified as less interesting. However, on visiting the picturesque Spanish towns Segovia, Burgos, Ronda and Toledo in 1912, Strang felt the views suitable subject matter for a set. In his architectural and landscape subjects Strang’s concern was to capture a tranquil, homely beauty rather than the grandeur and awe so often associated with this genre.
Updated before 2020
- Artist:
- William Strang (1859 - 1921) Scottish
- Title:
- Casa Del Greco, Toledo
- Date:
- 1913
- Materials:
- Etching and drypoint on paper
- Measurements:
- 30.90 cm diameter
- Object type:
- Work on paper
- Credit line:
- David Strang Gift 1955
- Accession number:
- P 2333.17
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William Strang
Born in Dumbarton, William Strang was briefly a clerk in the family shipbuilding firm before he entered the Slade School of Art in London in 1876. At the Slade he was deeply influenced by the teaching of Alphonse Legros, particularly the etching class which Legros instituted in 1877. The subject…
William Strang
During his lifetime, Dumbarton-born William Strang (1859 – 1921) built up an international reputation as a highly skilled and imaginative printmaker, portraitist and painter.;
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