Etchings

This lovely image of a young girl by the English printmaker Mortimer Menpes measures 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches and is pencil signed with an "imp" after his name indicating he was the printer. Etching and drypoint, dated 1882 in the plate. Menpes attended the School of Art in London in 1878 and started exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1880. He became a major figure in the etching revival, producing more than seven hundred different etchings and drypoints, which he usually printed himself.

Etching, image size 9 x 12 inches, pub. Klackner, 1886. Remarque of arrow through a heart. Pencil signed. Spiegle's well known images feature animals and genre scenes in an illustrative manner.

Drypoint, image size 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, 1937, edition of 50, signed and titled in pencil

Etching and aquatint, image size 9 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches, 1914, pencil signed l.r. "C.H. Baskett. del. et imp.'" and titled "A Corner in Bruges" l.l.

Drypoint on laid Whatman paper, image size 10 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches, 1928, pencil signed and numbered 49/50.

Etching, image size 7 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches, 1920, editioned as 42, plate and pencil signed l.r. "G Leheutre", publishers stamp "Sagot" l.r. Known as "the French Whistler", Leheutre switched from painting to printmaking after he saw Whistlers work. Member of the group of Nabis, Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890's.

Etching, image size 3 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, Flammarion 135, 1927, part of the Visage des Maison series, pencil signed.

Etching, image size 4 x 6 1/2 inches, 1927, Flammarion 125, part of the Visage des Maisons series, pencil signed.

Etching, drypoint, image size 6 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches, edition of 100, pencil signed l.r. "Max Kuehne".

Etching, 9 3/8 x 16 5/8 inches, 1883, cat. Schneider-78, plate signed