Open Edition Print.
A3 Unframed (420mm x 297mm).
Adapted from an original charcoal drawing, this design draws from a famous ‘spot of time’ in Book I of The Prelude (1799) where a drowned man is brought up from Esthwaite’s still waters. In the midst of a calm landscape of trees, hills, and mirrored reflections, the sudden appearance of the body stands as a stark interruption. The moment impresses itself on the young poet: a raw encounter with mortality that lingers in memory, shaping the forms and shadows that later return with a life of their own.
Wordsworth’s own lines shape the spirit of the work, and are included as a part of an authentication certificate included with each print:
The succeeding day
There came a company, and in their boat
Sounded with iron hooks, and with long poles.
At length the dead maní mid that beauteous scene
Of trees, and hills, and water, bolt upright
Rose with his ghastly face. I might advert
To numerous accidents in flood or field,
Quarry or moor, or ímid the winter snows,
Distresses and disasters, tragic facts
Of rural history that impressed my mind
With images, to which in following years
Far other feelings were attached, with forms
That yet exist with independent life
And, like their archetypes, know no decay.
Printed on a high quality 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, The Drowned Man of Esthwaite offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Editions series.
Open Edition Print.
A3 Unframed (420mm x 297mm).
Adapted from an original charcoal drawing, this design draws from a famous ‘spot of time’ in Book I of The Prelude (1799) where a drowned man is brought up from Esthwaite’s still waters. In the midst of a calm landscape of trees, hills, and mirrored reflections, the sudden appearance of the body stands as a stark interruption. The moment impresses itself on the young poet: a raw encounter with mortality that lingers in memory, shaping the forms and shadows that later return with a life of their own.
Wordsworth’s own lines shape the spirit of the work, and are included as a part of an authentication certificate included with each print:
The succeeding day
There came a company, and in their boat
Sounded with iron hooks, and with long poles.
At length the dead maní mid that beauteous scene
Of trees, and hills, and water, bolt upright
Rose with his ghastly face. I might advert
To numerous accidents in flood or field,
Quarry or moor, or ímid the winter snows,
Distresses and disasters, tragic facts
Of rural history that impressed my mind
With images, to which in following years
Far other feelings were attached, with forms
That yet exist with independent life
And, like their archetypes, know no decay.
Printed on a high quality 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, The Drowned Man of Esthwaite offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Editions series.
