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Boys Skating, an illustration for Down by the River, H. E. Bates, 1937signed and dated 'amillerParker. 37.' (lower right); numbered 8/35wood engraving, unframed21 x 18cm (sheet)One of the most gifted engravers of her generation, Agnes Miller-Parker’s body of work is characterised by skilful tonal control, delicate mark-making and springing, sinuous forms.Born in Ayrshire, Miller-Parker trained at the Glasgow School of Art before moving to London in 1920, where she studied wood engraving under Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton. In 1930, Miller-Parker and her husband, painter, William McCance, left London to run the Greynog Press in Wales. It was during this period that Miller-Parker produced some of her most celebrated works, including The Fables of Aesop (1931), Through the Woods, by H. E. Bates (1936), The Open Air, by Richard Jefferies, and her most acclaimed work, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, by Thomas Gray (1938).Sheet is adhered to the mount by two lengths of tape running along to upper and lower edges. From the reverse the surface appears very slight;y and uniformly toned, there are a few minor handling creases along the top edge. The image itself has some very minor, barely perceptible, areas of discolouration to the tree on the right hand edge, the lower right hand quadrant and along the left hand edge. Overall in good condition.

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