Hail! The Sun (Primary Title)
Third Indian and Ladaki Set (Set Title)
Ernest Stephen Lumsden, English, 1883–1948 (Artist)
Ernest Stephen Lumsden, English, 1883–1948 (Printer)
As if zooming in on a small detail in Gunga’s distant view, Lusmden provides an intimate study of morning rituals along the riverbank. At the center, a man raises his head and arms, greeting the rising sun. The same light he hails throws the umbrella before him into stark darkness. Despite the strong sunlight, the morning air is still cold, as heavily cloaked figures attest. Lumsden wrote of his floating vantage: “these really pious people will take not the faintest notice of anyone else, and it is possible to sit in a boat moored off a ghat all morning and attract but little attention.”
ed. 60
Signed in ink "Lumsden imp" at bottom center along plate line.
Inscribed in ink by the artist: "40 60". "S8825" inscribed in graphite by unknown hand on recto.
Gift of Frank Raysor
Light and Line: E. S. Lumsden's Visions of India, VMFA South Asian Galleries, April 11, 2016 - April 4, 2017
Copley, John. “The Later Etchings of E. S. Lumsden”, The Print Collector’s Quarterly, July 1936. Includes a chronological list, 1905-1935, compiled by E. S. Lumsden.
©artist or artist’s estate
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