20th Century European

Late Summer

Lithograph, image size 14 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches, sheet size 24 7/8 x 18 1/2 inches, 1917, edition of about 50, Delaney 85, on Ingres laid paper, pencil signed and annotated "No 85"

Sharp Fells

Mezzotint by the British engraver and etcher, Sir Frank Short. It measures 4 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches and is pencil signed, after a watercolor by Peter de Wint, c. 1902, edition of 150, cat: Hardie-77.

Le Mee

This is a very fine original etching with beautiful plate tone by French artist Louis Legrand. The image size is 5 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches, published in 1911 in an edition of 50 impressions, cat: Arwas- 426, state II/II, pencil signed.

Le Bassin Neuf a La Rochelle

This finely done scene of a boat bassin in France's seaport city of La Rochelle measures 7 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Created in 1904, it is plate signed and titled and also pencil signed, titled and numbered. The paper is a heavy weight Arches with the publishers seal on the lower right corner, margins are wide with the total sheet size measuring 12 x 17 1/8 inches. Leheutre studied to be a painter but after seeing an exhibit of Whistler etchings exhibited in 1892 by Georges Petit, he switched from painting to printmaking concentrating primarily on landscapes or city scenes.

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