Etchings

Drypoint etching from 1660. Catalog: Hollstein, Bartsch 34. 3rd state of 5. Inscribed in the lower left is the printer's address: "I Covens et C. Mortier Excudit." Pencil signed "Etch'd by Bega" in the lower right. Plate measures 7 x 6 inches, thread margins on a backing sheet.

Signed "A.G. Learned" in pencil in the lower right, titled "8 Melisande" in pencil in the lower left. Plate measures 17 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches on 19 x 12 1/4 inch watermarked laid type paper. Good use of plate tone.

Plate signed in the lower left, pencil signed in the lower right. Plate measures 8 x 9 3/4 inches on 9 5/8 x 11 3/4 inch wove type paper. Good use of plate tone with a rich drypoint burr. Meyerowitz studied at the National Academy of Design in NY and is best known for his development of producing etchings in color. His work is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute; National Academy of Design; Harvard University and the Library of Congress.

Plate measures 8 x 9 5/8 inches on 9 3/4 x 11 3/8 inch wove type paper. Signed in blue ink in the lower right. Numbered in pencil in the lower left, print number 11 in an edition of 30. Good use of plate tone and a rich drypoint burr. Meyerowitz studied at the National Academy of Design in NY and is best known for his development of producing etchings in color. His work is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute; National Academy of Design; Harvard University and the Library of Congress.

Plate signed in the lower left, ink signed in the lower right. Plate size measures 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches on 11 1/2 x 13 1/4 inch laid type paper. The scene depicted is a street in Gloucester. Good use of plate tone and a rich drypoint burr. Meyerowitz studied at the National Academy of Design in NY and is best known for his development of producing etchings in color. His work is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute; National Academy of Design; Harvard University and the Library of Congress.

Etching C. 1970. Pencil signed in the lower right, pencil numbered in the lower left, 170 in an edition of 200. Published by the Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA. Part of a series of 12 etchings inspired by the Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus. Catalog: Fern and O'Sullivan, 589. Plate measures 12 3/4 x 7 3/4 on 18 x 13 1/2 inch wove type paper with deckled edges. This print depicts the metamorphosis of man into bird, one of Baskin's recurring themes. His birdmen were inspired by those of Hieronymus Bosch and his religious background: they were considered a metaphor for spiritual insight.

Etching, pencil signed in the lower right. Plate size measures 24 x 16 1/4 inches. Excellent use of plate toning for the shadows. Andrew Affleck was one of Britain's most important architectural etchers of the early twentieth century. Today, the largest collections of Andrew Affleck's original etchings are housed in the British Museum, London.

Etching Ca. 1920. Pencil titled in the lower left, pencil signed "J. Alphege Brewer" in the lower right. Plate measure 24 x 15 1/4 inches on 27 1/2 x 17 3/4 inch wove type paper. Brewer exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, at the Paris Salon of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and in the shows of the Royal Cambrian Academy.

Color etching and aquatint. Pencil signed in the lower right. A rare print! Plate measures 23 x 17 3/4 inches on medium weight wove type 27 1/2 x 23 inch paper. Kasimir studied at the Vienna Academy of Art, although much of his etching technique was self taught and learned through working from nature. He specialized in atmospheric images of architecture, city scenes and landscapes; some bustling with people and automobiles, others quite timeless and serene. Kasimir developed his own technique, which was much more suited to the particular clarity of his compositions.

Color etching and aquatint. C. 1924. Plate size measures 27 1/4 x 18 1/2 on 23 x 33 inch paper, laid down on a 34 x 24 1/4 inch mat. The scene is of the Arch of the Septimius Severus in Rome. Pencil and plate signed in the lower right. Kasimir studied at the Vienna Academy of Art, although much of his etching technique was self taught and learned through working from nature. He specialized in atmospheric images of architecture, city scenes and landscapes; some bustling with people and automobiles, others quite timeless and serene.