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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.
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