Cockington Forge By Beatix Pollitt (Devon). Antique engraving.
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Cockington Forge (Devon)
Artist and engraver: Beatrix Pollitt (British, 1863-1935).
Size: 27,7x16 cms.
With passe partous.
Production date: end of 19th c.
Condition: good.
Beatrix Pollitt and her twin sister, Lilian, were born into an artistic family between July and September 1863, in Manchester, then part of Lancashire, England. The 1881 British census shows them both as art students, which may have been at the traditional Manchester School of Art, initially, but they were likely later influenced by the more progressive Manchester School of Painters* that accepted watercolor as a legitimate art medium. They lived with their widowed father, Robert Pollitt (born about 1833), who was an artist/painter. He was connected (and perhaps his daughters as well) with the Art Workmen's Association in Manchester.
The Forge is one of the most photographed buildings in Britain, and dates back to the fourteenth century, making it a focal point of the Domesday village of Cockington for over seven hundred years. Although no longer producing goods from the furnace for practical and economic reasons, the Forge still manufactures the famous miniature horseshoe, and is open from Easter till Winter.
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Cockington Forge (Devon)
Artist and engraver: Beatrix Pollitt (British, 1863-1935).
Size: 27,7x16 cms.
With passe partous.
Production date: end of 19th c.
Condition: good.
Beatrix Pollitt and her twin sister, Lilian, were born into an artistic family between July and September 1863, in Manchester, then part of Lancashire, England. The 1881 British census shows them both as art students, which may have been at the traditional Manchester School of Art, initially, but they were likely later influenced by the more progressive Manchester School of Painters* that accepted watercolor as a legitimate art medium. They lived with their widowed father, Robert Pollitt (born about 1833), who was an artist/painter. He was connected (and perhaps his daughters as well) with the Art Workmen's Association in Manchester.
The Forge is one of the most photographed buildings in Britain, and dates back to the fourteenth century, making it a focal point of the Domesday village of Cockington for over seven hundred years. Although no longer producing goods from the furnace for practical and economic reasons, the Forge still manufactures the famous miniature horseshoe, and is open from Easter till Winter.