Artist: Frances Abel William Taylor Armstrong (British, 1849-1920)
Medium: Antique Heliogravure in Sepia on thick laid paper after the original by a master engraver.
Signature: Signed in the plate lower right.
Dimensions: Image Size 8 5/8 x 10 1/4 inches
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 18 x 19 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Mr. Armstong is known to the public by his drawings in the neighborhood of Exmoor, which where he engraved for the illustrated edition of Mr. Blackmore’s novel, Lorna Doone. He had made numerous landscape studies in sepia, with strong effects of atmosphere and light and shade, like the piece above Oxford with its domes and spires.