Framed Print - "Nearly Done" Signed by the artist Walter Sadler and engraver….

Nearly Done by Walter Dendy Sadler

Signed etching

Walter Sadler (1854 - 1923) was an English painter. He was a member of the RBA and exhibited at the Dudley Gallery from 1872 and at the Royal Academy from the following year through to the 1890s. A number of his paintings are in museum collections.

'Nearly Done' An old woman sitting in an armchair on the left, and a younger woman standing on the right, sewing opposite hems of a quilt which they hold between them, a bundle of trimmings on the floor on the left.

Print made by William Henry Boucher. After Walter Dendy Sadler. Published in London 1898 by Léon Henri Lefèvre.

The piece is signed by the artist Walter Sadler and engraver William Boucher in the plate; below the image, with an etched remarque of a made-up four-poster bed with the quilt.