20th Century European

Color etching, image size 11 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches, pencil signed and numbered 30/150

This is a remarkable original etching by William Lionel Wyllie, image size 9 1/4 x 14 inches, c. 1900, pencil signed, titled on the lower edge of the sheet. Wyllie was a well known marine painter and printmaker in early 20th century London. He studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, then at the age of 15 began his studies at the Royal Academy. At the age of 18, Wyllie won the Turner Gold Medal for his painting "Dawn After A Storm". He went on to have a long artistic career, specializing in paintings and etchings of the sea and the city of London.

Etching by the German printmaker, Bertha Lebert, measuring 8 1/2 x 6 inches with pencil signature.

This matted and framed Victorian image, created in 1911, measures 12/1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. It is pencil signed in the lower right corner with a publishers blindstamp on the lower left margin. "Copyright Published January 1st, 1911, Vicars Brothers, 12 Old Bond Street, London." is printed across the top margin. Wilson was a master of the English mezzotint revival style of the early 1900's.

Drypoint etching measures 10 x 7 1/2 inches on 14 3/4 x 10 inch laid type paper. Pencil signed in the lower right, pencil numbered 12 in an edition of 100 in the lower left. Plate signed in the lower right and dated 1926. This print has good plate toning and use of line to suggest depth and space.

This is a fine impression of the facade of the College of San Gregorio, by the German printmaker, Sepp Frank, measuring 19 x 11 1/4 inches, from his 1923 series "Meine Spanishche Reise Acht Radierungen". One of eight impression, pencil signed.

Lithograph, image size 3 x 2 1/2 inches, 1929, artist's proof, pencil signed and dated.

Aquatint, image size 10 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches, 1918, cat. Hardie-163, pencil signed. One of Short's largest aquatints, this scene depicts two fishermen on the Bure at Stokesby Ferry near Acle in Norfolk.

Etching, image size 7 x 5 inches, 1927, second state, plate signed.

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.