Prints

Engraving after Raphael. 1840. Randall 9456. Image size 11 5/8 x 9 in, sheet 15 5/8 x 11 1/8 in.

This is a very fine original etching, image size 7 1/8 x 9 inches, c. 1920, hand signed in ink and inscribed "To Dr. Charles Oppenheim with best wishes". Lionel Reiss was born in Poland but grew up in New York City; he was known for his images of Jewish life and culture, and in the 1920s spent several years traveling throughout Europe and the Middle East creating many images of everyday life in the Jewish communities he visited.

"Marshes" is an atmospheric landscape by Sydney MacKenzie Litten done in an edition of 80. It measures 7 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches and is pencil signed on the lower margin. While attending the Royal College of Art in London, Litten became a pupil of Frank Short, who is credited with the revival of the messotint and aquatint process in England. Litten became well known for his landscapes and their sense of space and his architectual views. Living in London he became the Senior Master at the St. Martins School of Art.

This etching by Philip Kappel measures 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches. A 1st proof, created in 1945, is pencil signed and titled on the lower margin. Kappel was born in Hartford, CT, and educated at the Pratt Institute in New York. He was employed as an artist for several shipping companies and much of his work documents these ships and their sailors. At age 26, Kappel was the youngest person ever admitted to "Who's Who in America."

Etching, image size 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches, pencil signed

Etching, image size 10 3/4 x 16 3/8 inches, pub 1885, plate signed and dated with an additional pencil signature by the artist. Landscape depicting a small town and church steeple nestled among the trees with a slow moving river in the foreground.

Etching,8 3/4X12",pencil signed

Etching/drypoint, 5 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches, pencil signed

Etching, image size 5 78 x 10 12 inches, c. 1910, edition of 50, pencil signed and numbered below the image, titled in the lower margin. A delicately rendered landscape on a medium weight wove type paper with ample margins.

Engraving after J. S. Duplessis, 1784, image size 12 11/16 x 9 1/8 in, sheet 13 1/2 x 9 9/16 in, Randall 4412, Fogg Museum provenance

Etching, image size 3 x 5 3/4 inches, c. 1880, plate signed l.r. "JM Falconer" and pencil signed l.r. "Falconer". Falconer was a Scottish-born American etcher, painter, and watercolorist. He belonged to the New York Etching Club, and was made an honorary member of the National Academy of Design in 1856. He is known for his picturesque sites of older buildings and rural ruins. Falconer was a friend of Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Jasper Francis Cropsey and other artists of the Hudson River School. His works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the New-York Historical Society; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; and the Columbus (Georgia) Museum.

This lithograph of a cold winter night by American artist Ernest Fiene measures 9 1/4 x 13 inches and is pencil signed. AAA label included.

Engraving after Bonet, image size: 9 13/16 x 7 1/4 inches, sheet size: 15 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches, Fogg Museum Provenance, J W Randall collection #1650

This engraving of a child entering Paradise by William Dickinson, after a painting by Reverend Matthew W. Peters, measures 19 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches. Published in London in 1795 by the Macklin Poets Gallery.

This c. 1940 seascape by Hopper Emory measures 8 x 9 3/8 inches and is pencil signed and titled. Hopper Emory was born in Baltimore, Maryland and had a successful career in banking before he turned exclusively to his artwork. He traveled to England where he studied at the Heatherly School of Art in London, then returned to Maryland where he became known for his delicately rendered architectural and maritime etchings.