20th Century European Prints

Etching, drypoint, image size 9 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches, c. 1920, pencil signed l.c., "W. Lee Hankey", artist seal l.c. and plate initialed l.l.

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

This is an original pencil signed wood engraving by British artist and illustrator John Nash. The title is Marrow and other Autumn Fruit and Flowers, created and printed in 1935. This image created for the H.E. Bates book, Flowers and Faces has an image size of 7X5 inches.  Printed on a soft wove type sheet.  The sheet size is: 10X8 inches.  Nash was a member of the Society of Wood Engravers in Britian.

Pencil signed etching by the Austrian Expressionist Wachelmayr. Image size is 6 x 7 3/8 inches on 9 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches wove-type paper. Circa 1917.

Etching, image size 15 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches. Pencil titled and signed. Printed on watermarked medium weight laid type paper.

This is an original pencil signed and titled etching by Dutch artist Jules De Bruycker.  The title is: Patershol, (A Gent Quarter)  created and printed in 1906.  The image measures 12 7/8X6 7/8 inches.  The catalog notation is: le Roy, 10.  Printed on a medium weight laid type sheet.

This is a fine original etchng by British artist George Marples (1869-1939)  This image is titled: Shephard with Flock Crossing the Bridge, created and printed circa 1934.  Printed on a laid type sheet, this image measures 5X7 inches, Printed on a sheet that measures 8X10 inches.

Engraving, image size 16 1/8 x 21 1/8 inches, c. 1940s, edition of 100, pencil signed and editioned.

Etching, image size 8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches, 1909, edition of 9, cat: Hardie-55, pencil signed l.r, "W Lee Hankey", plate initialed l.r. and artist seal l.c.

This is an original drypoint etching by British artist Sir Henry Rushbury.  The title On the Stour, printed in 1919 in an edition of 50 impressions.  This etching is hand signed in pencil lower border.  The image measures 9 3/4X12 5/8 inches.  Very fine condition, framed.  The River Stour /ˈstaʊər/ is a river in Kent, England that flows into the North Sea at Pegwell Bay.

Etching & drypoint, image size 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches, 1921, ed. of 54, Beetles 249 VIII/VIII, pencil signed.

Etching, image size 10 3/16 x 8 1/2 inches, subsequent to Hardie, pencil signed.

This is an etching by British artist Robert S. Austin titled: High Bridge pencil signed lower border.  This etching measures 4 3/8X5 1/8 inches, printed on medium weight laid type paper.  Created and printed in 1928 in an edition of 75.  This image was illustrated in the Salaman book, Modern Masters of Etching.  Dodgson 77.

This is a very large mezzotint by British artist Percival Gaskell.  We are unsure of the title, it shows a fine landscape with pond at sunrise.  This mezzotint is pencil signed by the artist and printed on a thin chine collet attached to a thicker sheet of wove type paper.  The image measures 12 3/34X18 1/4 inches.  Some light foxing in the outer border area.

This is an original etching by British artist Stanley Anderson.  It is titled: The George Inn Public House, Southwark.  It was created and printed in 1919 in an edition of 175.  The image measures 9 3/4X12 inches, pencil signed lower right and has the blindstamp Fine Art Trade Guild.  It was published by Henry Graves.  "The George Inn of Borough High Street in Southwark is the only surviving galleried coaching inn in London.  It served as an outdoor theatre in Elizabethan times."  This image appears in the RAofA catalog as image number 96.  Good condition, but we a weakened platemark on the left side, most likely from the printing press pressure.