Sutherland O.M., Graham (1903 – 1980) – ‘Lammas’ (T.23 / C.29).

Etching. 1926. Signed and indistinctly editioned 18(?)/85. Further signed and dated twice in the plate. State V of V. Inscribed, ‘Lammas / printed on handmade paper / Plate destroyed’. Lammas is celebrated on the 1st of August. Bread is made from the new crop of wheat and is blessed. The composition, which relates closely to ‘St Mary Hatch’ (C.28), conjures the same sense of pastoral timelessness. It includes a small reference on the right to Calvert’s ‘The Sheep of His Pasture’ (L.9b) and via Calvert, to Blake.