Prints

Etching, image size: 8 1/2 x 10 7/16 inches, 1871, III state, cat. Villet-82, signed, titled and dated in the plate lower right

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.

1889, etching, 29x15 3/4, pencil signed

Etching, image size 11 5/16 x 7 3/4 inches, CP blind stamp l.l., pencil signed

Etching, image size 7 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches, 1931, pencil signed l.r. "George C. Wales", plate inscribed l.l. "Rum and Bibles for the West Coast of Africa G.C.W. 1931". Wales was born in Boston in 1868. He studied architecture at MIT and after graduation worked at a prominent firm in the Boston area eventually opening his own. It was only when he was nearing fifty that he became interested in the art of etching. His first exhibit was in 1921, by 1923 he had "mastered" the lithography process and in 1927 Wales published a book on etchings of American ships.

Plate signed and dated 1889 in the lower left. Image measures 4 5/8 x 13 1/2 inches on 7 7/8 x 19 7/8 inch medium weight wove type paper. An atmopsheric etching with a wide tonal range.

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.

Lithograph, image size 13 1/8 x 9 3/4, c. 1970s, pencil signed, titled and numbered.

etching,3 1/4X8 1/4",platesigned

Etching and drypoint, image size 13 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches, c. 1920, pencil signed l.r. "John G. Mathieson", original publishers label on back, framed. (M)

Etching, image size: 8X9 3/4 in. pencil signed

Etching, restrike of plate circa 1660, image size 6 1/2 x 7 inches, plate signed.

Woodblock print, image size 13 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches, This print is titled: "Ship Building, Nova Scotia". and was created and printed by Albert Potter c. 1930...This is an unsigned proof.

Old Master engraving, image size 8 x 11 7/8 inches, unsigned, extensive legend in olde English

This etching by Charles Mielatz measures 3 x 4 1/2 inches. Created in 1907, it is plate signed and dated and also pencil signed on the lower margin. Mielatz was born in Germany in 1864. After arriving in the US he attended the Chicago School of Design. Meilatz studied different artistic mediums but after an introduction to etching by J.J. Callahan he came to love the etching process and devoted his time exclusively to it. For fifteen years he was the chief Instructor in etching at the National Academy of Design in NY.