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Artworks
William Wilson RSA 1905-1972
Canongate, undatedcopper etching plate20.0 x 26.2 cmGifted to the RSA from the estate of Roy Wood, 2017Though undated this print shows the grittiness of handling evident in Wilson's Welsh prints from 1940. The figures which feature with such clarity in earlier works, such as The Harrow,...Though undated this print shows the grittiness of handling evident in Wilson's Welsh prints from 1940. The figures which feature with such clarity in earlier works, such as The Harrow, are here reduced to a sketched suggestion. It nonetheless conveys the atmosphere of a declaimer addressing a small crowd in the shadow of Canongate Kirk
