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Griggs (Frederick Landseer, 1876-1938). Stoke Poges, 1918, etching on cream laid paper, with partial Brittania watermark, one of only 22 impressions of the final state,hairline fracture running up the right plate margin, continuing as a closed tear to top margin archivally repaired, signed in pencil, a very good impression, plate size 96 x 117 mm (3 3/4 x 4 5/8 ins), sheet size 155 x 173 mm (6 1/8 x 6 9/16 ins), hinge mounted in window mount with Cradock and Barnard pencil annotations (Quantity: 1) Comstock 20 vi/vi. One of the rarest of Griggs' etchings, an idealised interpretation of the timbered south porch of St. Giles Church, Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire, itself the inspiration for Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.