Farmer - Beauty Point

Editioned 1/30, titled and signed in pencil. Watermarked paper 'FG Head & Co'. Helen Marguerite Farmer was a painter and etcher who studied under Sydney Long and was taught the intaglio printmaking technique by Sir Will Ashton. Regarded as one of the principal women etcher-painters during Australia's Golden Age of Etching (1920/1930). This etching was exhibited at the Third Annual Exhibition of Etchings by the Australian Painter Etchers Society in July 1923. Beauty Point is a town by the Tamar River, in the north-east of Tasmania.