This beautifully detailed etching is by the British artist Jon Dixon and depicts Lake Orta in Italy. It’s signed both in plate and below the etching in pencil. Framed in a later gilt frame with anti-glare glass.

Job Nixon was born in 1891, Stoke on Trent. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and won the Prix de Rome in engraving in 1923. Upon returning from Rome, Nixon taught at the Royal College of Art as assistant to Malcolm Osbourne in the Engraving School. In his short lifetime, he produced over 75 etchings and drypoints, mostly landscapes and often scenes in France or Italy.

He settled in Cornwall in 1931, where he exhibited with the Newlyn Society of Artists and briefly ran a school in St Ives before returning to London to take up a teaching post at the Slade in 1935. Unfortunately Nixon died three years later, he was only 47.

Frame measures 64cm x 50cm

Aperture measures 39cm x 25cm