George Mackley

Snatch Block

George Mackley's "Snatch Block", is an original wood engraving created by the British artist in 1968. This original impression hails from the portfolio entitled, Engraved in the Wood, A Collection of Wood Engravings by George Mackley published by The Two-Horse Press. It is printed upon smooth rag paper with the T H Saunders watermark to the upper right and with full, deckled margins as printed and published at the date stated above in the limited edition of three hundred impressions. Bearing the title and publisher's number along the lower margin.


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Title:	Snatch Block
Artist:	Mackley, George (Tonbridge, Kent, 1900 - 1983)
Date:	1968
Medium:	Original Wood Engraving
Publisher:	The Two-Horse Press, London
Note:	"Mackley is one of three engravers who have achieved extreme fineness of line and texture and, as with Agnes Miller Parker in particular and Blair Hughes-Stanton, the fineness of linear closeness often confuses the human optical system. ... It is in the work of engravers like Mackley that one can experience the shimmering, silvery greys that are often found in modern Russian engraving. Mackley is possibly our finest exponent of these greys and they are evenly distributed through his compositions." *
	George Mackley was educated at the Judd School, Tonbridge and trained as an art teacher at Goldsmith's College, London, from 1918 to 1921. Much of his long career as a teacher was dedicated to devising special art courses for talented children.
	As an artist, George Mackley devoted much of his early work to the art of etching. Around 1930, however, a chance meeting with Noel Rooke converted Mackley to wood engraving. Mackley took some basic instructions from Rooke and carefully studied the works of other great contemporary wood engravers such as, Agnes Miller Parker, Blair Hughes Stanton, Robert Gibbings and Joan Hassall. "He became a superb craftsman, finding the medium capable of a precision which suited the subjects he preferred -- boats, bridges, architecture, plants." ** By the 1940's George Mackley had emerged as one of England's greatest wood engravers and an undisputed master of creating textures and a fineness of line.
	George Mackley was a full member of the Society of Wood Engravers (1948) and of the Art Workers' Guild (1959). He was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1950 and a Fellow in 1961. Finally, in 1983, he was awarded the M.B.E. Major collections of George Mackley's wood engraved art are found in England at the Ashmolean and Fitzwilliam museums.
	In 1968 The Two-Horse Press published an important portfolio entitled, Engraved in the Wood, A Collection of Wood Engravings by George Mackley. To accompany the text of Rauri McLean and Armida Maria-Theresa Colt, Mackley contributed sixty-eight of his wood engraving blocks which were printed in editions of three hundred on individual sheets of laid paper bearing the T H Saunders watermark and loosely inserted into the portfolio. Each of these original wood engravings bears a number and the title of the work under the image. Snatch Block was originally printed by Mackley in a small edition of twenty signed impressions before the 1968 edition.
Reference:	* Albert Garrett, A History of Wood Engraving, Bloomsbury Books, London, 1978, p. 223.
	** Alan Horne, The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1994, p. 306.
Edition:	Limited edition of three hundred impressions
Size:	3 1/4 X 5 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $195.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon smooth rag paper with the T H Saunders watermark to the upper right and with full, deckled margins as printed and published in 1968 in the limited edition of three hundred. Bearing the title and publisher's number along the lower margin. A superbly printed impression and in fine condition throughout. Snatch Block stands as a prime, original example of the famous art of George Mackley, one of Britain's master wood engravers.
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