Etchings

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.

Etching, image size 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, titled and signed in pencil

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

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

Etching, image size 6 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches, ed. of 100, titled and signed in pencil.

This 1928 original etching by Arthur Briscoe measures 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches, pencil signed and numbered, 10/75, cat: Laver 116, plate titled and dated, published by H.C. Dickins. This spectacular image was created at the height of Briscoe's popularity, depicting the dangerous and challenging daily routines aboard a seafaring vessel. Briscoe studied at the Slade Art School and the Academy Julian in Paris and then spent the rest of his time sailing, becoming one of the most prominent British marine artists of the 20th century.

Etching by Nicolas Mignard after the frescoes of Annibale Carracci depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey. Plate size 10 1/4 x 17 3/4, published by Pierre Mariette in 1637, with lettering in Latin below the image. Printed on a very early watermarked laid type paper.

Etching, image size 9 x 11 7/8 inches, 1879, titled in the plate, pencil signed.

This etching by the British artist Edward Julius Detmold, measures 7 3/4 x 16 inches, pencil signed and numbered 44/60, 1927, framed. Edward Julius Detmold's artistic talents were apparent at an early age. He and his twin brother, Charles Maurice Detmold, were both considered well beyond their years in their artistic abilities, their watercolors were being exhibited at the Royal Academy by age 13, the youngest artists to be admitted at the time.

Etching, image size 4 x 5 3/4 inches, cat. Platt 54, 1884, plate signed.