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- ↑ Boulet, Roger H. (2003). Ernest S. Lumsden 1883 - 1948. Visual Arts Burnaby: Canada.
- ↑ Hopkinson, Martin (1999). No day without a line. The History of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 1880–1999. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum
- ↑ Lumsden, E.S. (1925). The art of Etching. London: Seely, Service and Co. Ltd.
