Self Portrait, The Artist at the Easel

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	item:- Tullie House Museum : 1925.88.1 image:- ©  Tullie House Museum	click to enlarge
	Print, etching, Self Portrait, The Artist at the Easel, by Joseph W Simpson, Carlisle, Cumberland, about 1925. In this etching Simpson depicts himself in middle age. He faces right, his head turned to regard the viewer. He wears a loose jacket and in his right hand he holds a paintbrush, in his left a palette. About the time Simpson made this work he had spent a period of approximately 6 months experimenting with the etching process using a disused press from Charles Thurnham and Sons, a Carlisle printing firm.
	inscription:-	signed & numbered (?) bottom right Joseph Simpson 25
	inscription:-	annotated bottom of paper Phillis Hildegard to Robt Hole
	wxh, image:-	21x30cm
	wxh, sheet:-	27x41cm

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