St.George

Single Plate Intaglio edition proof

Medium: (hard ground and soft ground etching)
Image size: 6 inches X 2.5 inches
Paper size: 11.25 inches X 7 inches
Paper: Somerset Satin White
Printing element: 1 copperplate

Edition proofs are available for purchase.  Value: $75

St. George was an early Christian martyr and is the patron saint of boy scouts, the Kingdom of England and a protector of women.  Having performed the feat for which he is widely known, St. George stands triumphant and strong, stepping out of the coils of the vanquished dragon.  Facts about St. George are few and his feast day was made optional by reforms in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar.  He remains, however and important figure in the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox religious and cultural traditions.  The secular milieu from which the turn-of-the-century art glass movement arose drew heavily on elements as disparate as Orientalia and Anglophilia for inspiration.

The Cathedral Church of St. Marks in Salt Lake City, Utah houses a number of artistically and historically important stained glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Charles Connick.  The St. George stained glass window portrayed in this etching was one of a set of Tiffany window that were some of the first installed west of the Mississippi.