Prints

This is an original etching by British artist Edmund Blampied.   The title is: "The Vraic Season (No 1)" , it was created and printed in 1936 in an edition of 125 for the American College Society of Print Collectors.  The image measures 12X14 1/4 inches.  Very fine condition, hand signed in ink.  Vraic is seaweed that was harvested on the Channel Islands and used for potato fields.  The usual method was gathering it up with horse drawn carts.  A rich impression.

This is an original etching by American artist Joseph Pennell.  The title of this etching is "Madison Avenue" also known as "Rebuilding Madison Avenue".  This etching was created and printed in 1923 in an edition of 50 impressions.  This proof is hand signed in pencil by the artist with the "imp" after his name meaning that he printed this impression himself.  It is printed on an antique laid type paper.  The image measures 12X9 1/8 inches.  The image appears in the Wuerth catalog as image number 811.

This is a fine original lithograph by American artist Stow Wengenroth.  It is titled: Little One, Rockport, Massachusetts, created and printed in 1975 in an edition of 100.  The plate measures 9 5/16X13 9/16 inches.  Hand signed and editioned in pencil lower border.  This image appears in the Stuckey catalog as image number 359.  Finely detailed, one of his series of Owls that Wengenroth created through out his life time.

This is an original etching and aquatint by French artist Georges Rouault. From his Miserere series.  Plate 30: "Nous . . . c'est en sa mort que nous avons été baptisés" / ["Know ye not, that] so many of us [as were batised into Jesus Christ] were baptised into his death?" [John 13: 34] (C & R 83e). Original aquatint, drypoint, burnisher, and roulette. 450 impressions signed bottom left (the date of this print is not visible and there are no pencil-signed proofs) for the Miserere, one of the greatest print cycles of all time. Here we are shown St John the Baptist baptising Jesus while the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove hovers above, confirming the words of St John in plate 28. Image size: 21 1/2X 16 1/2 inches.

This is an original etching and aquatint by French artist Georges Rouault, take from his Miserere Series.   Plate 56: En ces temps noirs de jactance et d'incroyance, Notre Dame de la Fin des Terres Vigilante / In these dark times of vainglory and unbelief, Our Lady of the Ends of the Earth keeps watch (C&R. 109c). Original aquatint, drypoint, burnisher, roulette, scraper, 1927. 450 impressions for the Miserere, Rouault's masterpiece and one of the most important series of the twentieth century. Signed in the plate and dated 1927 at lower center left (there are no pencil-signed proofs). A beautiful impression of this climactic image. Image size: 23X17 inches.

This is an original drypoint etching by German Expressionist  artist Lovis Corinth (1858-1925)   The title of this work is: "Alter Mann" (the old man) It was created and printed in 1916.  The image measures 6 5/8X4 3/4 inches.  Signed in pencil in the lower border.Printed on a light weight laid type paper, very nice condition.

Lithograph, 1875, image size: 7 1/2 x 7 7/16 inches, initialed in plate

This is a fine highly detailed etching by British artist Stanley Badmin, created and printed in 1929 this image is titled: The Old Ash.  The image measures 5 1/2X4 inches, pencil signed and numbered: 4/40.  Printed on a Buff toned wove type sheet.  "Badmin's interest in  the stark shapes of leafless trees silhouetted against the skyline  is a subject that he frequently pursued.This image shows an old Ash tree near Balcombe, in Sussex.  This image appears in the Beetles catalog as number 12.

Etching and drypoint, image size 9 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches, 1865, IV/V, Melot D.118, printed at bottom margin "Daubigny Sculp." l.l., "Sarazin imp. Paris" l.r. and titled "Le Gue" l.c., framed. This was Daubignys' third contribution to the "Societe des Aquafortistes", also exhibited at the Exposition Universelle", the world's fair of 1867.

Engraving after Giulio Romano; Holy Family "with the Lizard" Prov. Gray: 753; Thies: The picture is in the Gallery of the Pitti palace in Florence. Passavant, Rafael, 11.No.230,Copy a.A repetiton of Raphael's Holy Family "under the Oak Tree" in the Madrid Gallery. Passavant,II.230.
Impression with the engraver's address

Engraving after Rigaud, 1742, image size 18 x 13 inches

This is a fine etching with aquatint by French artist Louis Legrand,  The subject is: Profils Parisiennes (Two Parisian Women)  created and printed in 1890.  This impression is hand signed, titled and dedicated in Sepia Ink lower right.  The image measures 19 3/4X12 3/4 inches.  Some light toning in the borders, the border on the left is trimmed 1/4 inches outside the platemark.

This is a very fine etching with drypoint by French artist Edgar Chahine (1874-1947)  The title of this work is: "Mademoiselle Delvair de la Comedie Francaise,", it was created and printed in 1901, pencil signed lower left border.  The image measures 18X11 1/2 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type paper.  This image appears in the Tabanelli catalog as image no. 73.  It also appeared in the Holme's book, Modern Etching and Engraving, published 1902.

This is an original pencil signed etching by American artist Frank Benson.  This etching is titled:Swinging In, created and printed in 1927 in an edition of 150.  The image measures 7 3/4X11 3/4 inches.  Printed on Whatman paper.  This etching is in the Ordeman catalog as image number 272.

This is a scarce original pencil signed mezzotint by American artist James D. Smillie.  The title is Double Hollyhocks, it was created and printed in 1889.  The image measures 8 5/8X5 5/8 inches.  Printed on a chine collet adhered to a thicker wove type sheet.  A beautiful impression of this very rare mezzotint by Smillie.