Prints

This is an original drypoint etching by well known American artist and Architect Samuel Chamberlain.  The title is: Valley of the Var,  The location is Entrevaux, France.  This image was created and printed in 1940, it is pencil signed and editioned as: 5/100.  Printed with a warm toned ink, the image measures 10 7/8X13 3/16 inches.  This image appears in the Chamberlain catalog as image number 132.

This is an original etching by British artist Edward Bouverie Hoyton (1900-1988)  The title is: St. Hubert's Chapel, it was created and printed circa 1930's.  The image measures 7 7/16X11 1/8 inches,   Pencil signed lower right border, printed on a medium weight buff toned laid type paper.  A very rich impression.  Edward Bouverie- Hoyton was in the same etching class as Paul Drury and Graham Sutherland. They remained friends throughout their lives. His early work came under the spell of Samuel Palmer but he was also influenced by the etchings of artists such as John Crome and John Sell Cotman of the Norwich School.

Kauro Saito (1931-)

Bird and Cracker:   Image size 6 1/2X7 1/4 inches mezzotint, created Circa 1990 in an edition of 21/93.  Last sold by Vorpal Galleries in New York City  Nicely framed with archival materials

Biography Saito, Kaoru (1931 - )

Saito Kaoru was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1931. He studied Fine Art under Tsuruta Gorō and Arai Tatsuo from 1948-1950. He became a member of the Shunyo-kai and he is mainly known for his mezzotints. He has had countless exhibitions, and he is generally considered one of Japan's finest mezzotint artists. He now lives in Hayama, also in Kanagawa.

This is an early copper engraving by Cornelius Visscher after the painting by Pieter Claesz Soutman.  This period impression was printed on an early laid type paper.  The image shows the Bishop being killed by two knives in his chest.  The image measures 16 3/4X11 5/8 inches.

Lithograph, image size 14 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches, c. 1930s, edition of 34, pencil signed.

This is an original pencil signed etching by British artist William Strang.  This self portrait was created and printed in 1910.  It is inscribed, 2nd state, 2 proofs.  The image measures 9 7/8X7 inches.  A fine rich impression, nice use of plate tone.  This is printed on a medium weight laid type paper.

This is an original color etching by American artist Dorsey Potter Tyson.  The title is Siamese Dancers, created and printed in 1928 in an edition of 100.  This impression is numbered as XXVIII.  It is also hand signed in pencil. The image measures 8X9 7/8 inches.  It came to us in the original frame from Casson Galleries in Boston.  

This is a drypoint etching from 1910. Pencil signed in the lower right, plate signed in the lower right. Pencil numbered in the lower left 9/50. Plate measures 9 1/2 x 8 inches on chine colle.

Etching, image size: 6 x 8 15/16 inches, pencil signed lower right

Etching, Image size 17 7/8 x 29 5/8 inches, printed by Wm.Pate & Co, NY,
plate signed 1886

Etching of Léon, Spain. Trial proof. Pencil signed and dated 1923 in the lower right corner. Print measures 7 1/8 by 11 1/4 inches in a 16 x 19 inch gold frame. #1 in his Spanish Church Series. Catalog: Fletcher 140. Printed by Frederick Reynolds. This plate was done with the assistance of Kerr Eby. This atmospheric print showcases the artist's incredible eye for detail.

This is a fine drypoint etching by American artist Samuel Chamberlain.  The title is: Stonington Sunset,  it was created and printed in  March 1936, this pencil signed and numbered: 45/100 and is also inscribed to "Bill and Kathie Best Wishes" in the lower left border, the image measures 9 7/8X14 5/8 inches.  This image appears in the Chamberlain catalog as image number 124.  Nicely framed with archival matting...

Drypoint etching, image size 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches, 1946, pencil signed and numbered 51/110, published by the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français.

This is a fine original lithograph by American artist Daniel Putnam Brinley 1879-1963.  This image is a view of Assisi that he created on a European trip he took in the 1920's.  This image is hand signed in pencil, and has an image size of 14X10 7/8 inches.Brinley was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and exhibited at the Stieglitz gallery in New York City.  The image is numbered lower left 12.

Etching by Nicolas Mignard after the frescoes of Annibale Carracci depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey. Plate size 10 1/4 x 17 3/4, published by Pierre Mariette in 1637, with lettering in Latin below the image. Printed on a very early watermarked laid type paper.