This is an original drypoint etching by British artist William Lee Hankey. The title is: Minding the Flock. This etching created and printed circa 1920 is hand signed in pencil by the artist. A large etching measuring 14X11 1/2 inches.Printed on a medium weight wove type paper. Fine use of the sunlight and shadow in this beautiful composition.
This is an original etching by French artist Edgar Chahine. The image is pencil signed and titled: La Basilica de San Marco, Venice. This is a finely printed example on a laid type sheet. The image measures 12 1/2X8 1/4 inches. It is numbered as 35/100. There is a stamp or collectors seal at the upper border. Richly printed with fine use of plate tone. This impression was created and printed in 1923.
This is a fine etching by British artist William L. Wyllie (1851-1931) This image is titled: Panoramic View of Westminster from St. Pauls, created and printed circa 1920. Hand signed and titled in the lower border. The image measures 7X15 1/4 inches. Printed on a medium weight laid type paper.
"Brixham Trawlers" by Arthur Briscoe measures 5 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches, published in 1929 in an edition of 75. Printed in sepia toned ink on Whatman laid paper, it is ink signed and numbered and also plate signed, dated and titled. Briscoe is known as the finest marine etcher of the 20th. century. He owned his own three ton cutter which he used to sail around the Essex coast. Also crewing on a Polish ship, he sketched every aspect of life on the boat. He studied at the Slade Art School and the Academy Julian in Paris. His name became internationally renowned when his works sold to the New York market.
Etching, image size: 5 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches, 1881, #52, Cat. Schneider, edition of 38, pencil signed lower right
This is an original color aquatint etching by French artist Manuel Robbe. This image is titled: Maquillage, (making up) It was created and printed in 1904. It has the French publishers blindstamp lower right corner of the sheet. This impression is hand signed in pencil lower right border. The image measures 16 7/16X12 7/8 inches. The image appears in the Perussaux catalog as image number 130.
This was the original lithographs from the Panama Canal Series created in 1912 by the American artist Joseph Pennell. The title of this work is: The Approach to the Canal from the Pacific. This impression done on a Fabiano watermarked laid paper is hand signed in pencil with collectors annotations in the lower edge of the sheet. The image measures 16 1/2X 22 inches, on a sheet size of 20 1/2X25 1/2 inches.
Drypoint etching with hand coloring (lips), image size 19 3/4 x 12 inches, 1907, pencil signed lower right
This is an extremely large hand colored engraving by William Overend Geller, after the painting by Baron Jolly. This engraving is titled: "Franklin at the Court of France, 1778". It was published in Philadelphia in 1853. The image measures 27 1/2X 37 3/4 inches on a sheet size of 31 1/2X40 inches. This engraving was originally sold with the edition of hand coloring in watercolor. The colors are very rich, the sheet is linen backed but in very good condition. Sold unframed.
This is an original drypoint etching by British artist Edmund Blampied, created and printed in 1920 the title of this work is: "Soup", showing laborers at dinner. The image measures 9X8 1/8 inches. Printed in an edition of 100. This impression is hand signed in pencil in the lower border. This image was illustrated in Print Collector's Quarterly in 1926.
This is an early impression of the well known Bullfighting series titled La Tauromaquia by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. This image is plate 5 fro the series and is titled: The Courageous Moor, Gazul, Was the first to Fight Bullls. El animoso moro gazul es el priero que lanceo toros en regla. the platemark measures 9 3/4X14 inches on a sheet size of 13X17 1/4 inches. Although this is an early impression on medium weight laid type paper there is no plate number in the upper corner of the sheet. A bit of a mystery! A rich and detailed impression.
This is an original hand signed color aquatint etching by French artist Manuel Robbe (1872-1936) The title of this etching is: "Le Pont de L'Isle Adam" it was created and printed in 1927 in an edition of 100. The etching is pencil signed in the lower right. This etching was formally sold by Merrill Chase galleries in Chicago. The image measures 13 1/2X21 inches.A fine impression, Sold by Merrill Chase, Chicago... Robbe studied at the Academie Julien and the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris.
With his hand application of color no two images look exactly the same, a very painterly technique.
This is an original etching by American artist Isac Friedlander. The title of this work is: "Blessed be thy name", it was created and printed in 1942. The image measures 12 3/4X8 1/4 inches. The artist's view of the aftermath of war in Europe. It is hand signed, titled, dated and inscribed as "Trial Proof No3" in the lower margin by the artist in pencil.
Isac Friedlander (1890-1968) was born in Mitau, Latvia. He was arrested in 1906 and imprisoned by Russian authorities for anti- Czarist Political activities from 1906 to 1912. He studied art at the Academy of Rome, Italy from 1913 until 1917. He was a friend of Russian writer Maxim Gorky. Friedlander began his printing career in 1915. In 1917 he repatriated to Russia during the Kerensky regime, but in 1929 Friedlander immigrated to the US with the encouragement of his cousin Joseph Hirshhorn.
This is a rare early state etching by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, image size 5 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches, 1864, state VI/XIII, cat: Schneiderman-72, pencil signed. Sir Francis Seymour Haden was one of the most important British etchers of the 19th century, along with his brother in law James Whistler. In addition to being a highly regarded artist he was a successful surgeon, accomplished author and dedicated angler. He was a founder and the first president of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and was knighted in 1894.
This is an atmospheric original etching by British Marine artist and Lieutenant-Commander of the Royal Navy, Rowland Langmaid. Etching with drypoint, image size 5 5/8 x 8 inches, c. 1930, pencil signed and titled. A beautiful image of the silhouette of Big Ben rising above the busy Thames River.
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