Vase of Roses

F. Ernest Jackson ARA (1872 - 1945)

RA Collection: Art

This monochrome lithograph drawn in fine detail shows a vase of variously shaded roses against a dark background. The lithograph was designed and printed by F. Ernest Jackson, who was instrumental in reviving the practice of lithography in Britain in the early twentieth century.

The artist's biographer, J. G. P. Delaney, writes in the catalogue for Jackson's exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in 2000:

'Jackson also did a series of delicate, monochrome lithographs of carnations, of tulips, of camelias and five of roses ... These are wonderful examples of the use of texture in lithography.' (p. 9)

Vase of Roses has been conserved through a generous donation from the artist's granddaughter, Margaret Bear, 2012.