Dealers and Publishers of Contemporary Etchings and Works on Paper
Architectural Prints
The Yale Campus Print
This remarkable print, which features all the principal buildings and residential colleges on the Yale Campus, has been created by two British artists, Andrew Ingamells and Jennifer Court. Between them they have taken the 17th century Italian tradition of the capriccio (best understood as the fictional juxtaposition of architectural views, of which Piranesi was the best known exponent) to new and unrivalled levels.
For more than thirty years Capital Prints has specialised in commissioning and publishing editions of architectural prints made by copper-plate printmaking techniques such as aquatint etching, dust-grain gravure and photo-etching. These unashamedly rarefied, hand-made processes allow the use of heavier paper of the highest quality to bear the weight of the etching press. This, together with the continuous lines made by strong black etching inks, is exactly why intaglio* prints made as long ago as the 16th century can still look as crisp and fine as the day they were made.
The subjects covered include many London buildings, among them the Tate Gallery, the Royal Academy, The Bank of England, Hawksmoor's churches, the interior of the West London Synagogue, Christopher Wren's Monument, the Durbar Court in the Foreign Office, all four Inns of Court and, further afield, L'Opéra Garnier in Paris, the Italian duomos of Pisa and Siena, and The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
College and Campus Prints
As a separate category within this speciality, and very much in the tradition of David Loggan's engravings of the late 17th century, Capital Prints has made aerial view etchings of most of the older colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, as well as Harvard Yard, six of Yale's colleges and a capriccio of the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.
A long-term collector of renaissance etchings, engravings and chiaroscuro woodcuts, Martin Village is the owner of Capital Prints. Assisted by Christopher Wallach, it continues to be his good fortune to commission and publish the work of some of the world's finest architectural artists, among them Andrew Ingamells, Liam Hipple and Jennifer Court - and to have collaborated for 35 years with the outstanding artist/printmaker Peter Kosowicz of Thumbprint Editions in realising that work.
Watercolouring of prints is carried out individually, by hand, to order.
*Intaglio is a process whereby an image is incised into a surface sufficiently for the incised line then to hold ink.
Website Links:
https://www.andrewingamells.co.uk/
https://www.liamhippleillustration.co.uk/
