Prints

This wood engraving by Barry Moser is one of 25 from his "Gold Rush" series. Published in 1985 in an edition of 350, it measures 4 x 7 inches and is pencil signed by the artist on the lower margin. This series portrayed gold mining activities from America, Africa and Australia. Moser, from Tennessee, became a graphic artist and printmaker studying under Leonard Baskin and Jack Coughlin. In 1990 he became the "head of studio art" at the Rhode Island School of Design and his prints have been exhibited at the Berkshire Museum, the Los Angeles National Print Show and the Library of Congress National Print Exhibit. Moser states in his description of the images in this series of the "consumate dilemma" between the mining and the owning of gold, the high price politically, physically and spiritually that these men and their families paid for their dreams of a better life.

This wood engraving by Barry Moser is one of 25 prints from his "Gold Rush" series. Published in 1985 in an edition of 350, it measures 4 x 7 inches and is pencil signed by the artist on the lower margin. The "Gold Rush" series were images portraying gold mining activities from America, Africa and Australia. Moser, from Tennessee, became a graphic artist and printmaker, studying under Leonard Baskin and Jack Coughlin.

Engraving after G.B. Cipriani, image size: 11 x 9 inches

This etching by Joseph Margulies measures 8 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches. It is printed on a medium wove paper, pencil signed by the artist on the lower right margin and has an AAA galleries card. Margulies was a student of Joseph Pennell and went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Arts Student League of New York. He studied abroad in Paris and Vienna. His etchings are in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian.

This engraving by Charles Grignion measures 8 x 13 3/4 inches. Published by Gravelot in 1774. "Published as the Act directs by T. Sayer the 12 April 1774" is on the lower margin.

Etching by the French artist Adolphe Appian measuring 4 1/8 x 7 5/8, plate signed and titled, published by Cadart, Paris.

Etching, image size: 7 7/8 x 12 inches, plate signed lower left

Etching, image size 5 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches, 1919, most likely an early artist's proof, retouched stain just below image and a reinforced broken plate mark at two corners, pencil signed, dated, and titled.

Etching, image size 11 x 9 5/16 inches, 1920, pencil signed

This 1672 etching by Mathias Arteaga, after Valdes Leal, of the inside of Iglesia Cathedral, measures 16 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches. There is some worm damage and staining within the image.

This etching by Mathias Arteaga, after Valdes Leal, measures 20 1/2 x 11 5/8 inches. Created c. 1672, it is plate signed on the lower left with some worm damage within the image.

This etching of the "Monument to St. Ferdinand, by Mathias Arteaga, after Valdes Leal, measures 21 5/8 x 13 1/2 inches. It is dated "1671" on the lower center border and there is some worm damage within the image.

Etching, sight size 5 x 4 inches, 1928, pencil signed and dated "Simkha Simkhovitch 1928", edition of 40 prints.

French Old Master Engraving circa 1660, inscribed in plate, image size 7 3/4 x 10 3/16 inches

Etching, image size 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches, pencil signed, framed