The Etching Club

The Etching Club was a artists' society founded in London, England in 1838 by Charles West Cope. The club published illustrated editions of works by authors such as Oliver Goldsmith, Shakespeare, John Milton and Thomas Gray. It effectively ceased to exist in 1878.

Membership

• Charles West Cope
• William Holman Hunt
• Richard Redgrave
• Samuel Palmer
• Thomas Creswick
• John Frederick Tayler (1806 - 1889)
• Henry James Townsend (1810 - 1890)
• John Callcott Horsley
• Thomas Webster
• Frank Stone
• Samuel Palmer
• James Clarke Hook
• Richard Ansdell
• William Edward Frost
• George B. O'Neill
• William Henry Hunt
• John Everett Millais
• Francis Seymour Haden
• Thomas Oldham Barlow

Publications of The Etching Club

• Oliver Goldsmith. "The Deserted Village" (Joseph Cundall, 1855 - first pub. 1841).
• Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield.
• Corney, B. Goldsmith's poetical works (1845).
• William Shakespeare. Songs of Shakespeare (1843).
• William Shakespeare. The Ballads of Shakespeare (1852).
• John Milton. L'Allegro and Il ponseroso (1849).
• Thomas Gray. Elegy written in a country churchyard (1847).
• The Etching Club. Etched thoughts (1844)
• The Etching Club. Etchings For The Art-Union Of London by The Etching Club (London: Art Union of London, 1857).
• The Etching Club. A selection of etchings by the etchings club (Joseph Cundall, 1865).

References & Bibliography

• Cope, H. W. "Reminiscences of Charles West Cope, R. A." (London: Bentley, 1891) p. 35 ff.
• Ray, Gordon Norton. The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 Dover Publications, 1992) p. 139 ff.
• Lang, Gladys Engel & Lang, Kurt. Etched in memory: the building and survival of artistic reputation (University of Illinois Press, 2001) p. 37 ff.
• Fredericksen, A. The Etching Club of London: a taste for painters' etchings (exhibition catalogue, 2002).

External links

• The Etching Club.