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On the Kennet No.1
Artist
Lumsden, Ernest Stephen
Title
On the Kennet No.1
Technique
drypoint
Date
1905
Dimensions
14cm height x 18.1cm width
Type
print
Accession Number
1987.9
Owner
City of Burnaby
Collection
Permanent Collection
Gift of David Lemon
Ernest S. Lumsden (1883-1948) was a distinguished painter and an authority on etching. When an illness prevented him from continuing his post as a naval cadet in the mid-1890s, he enrolled at the Reading Art School in London where he studied drawing and painting. His first exhibition of etchings was in 1906 at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers Black and White exhibition, and he subsequently went on to exhibit across Europe before accepting a position as an instructor at the newly created Edinburgh College of Art in 1908. Thanks to a generous donation by David Lemon, the Burnaby Art Gallery holds an extraordinary collection of over 600 Ernest Lumsden prints.