20th Century European

Etching, pencil signed in the lower right. Plate size measures 24 x 16 1/4 inches. Excellent use of plate toning for the shadows. Andrew Affleck was one of Britain's most important architectural etchers of the early twentieth century. Today, the largest collections of Andrew Affleck's original etchings are housed in the British Museum, London.

Etching Ca. 1920. Pencil titled in the lower left, pencil signed "J. Alphege Brewer" in the lower right. Plate measure 24 x 15 1/4 inches on 27 1/2 x 17 3/4 inch wove type paper. Brewer exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, at the Paris Salon of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and in the shows of the Royal Cambrian Academy.

Color etching and aquatint. Pencil signed in the lower right. A rare print! Plate measures 23 x 17 3/4 inches on medium weight wove type 27 1/2 x 23 inch paper. Kasimir studied at the Vienna Academy of Art, although much of his etching technique was self taught and learned through working from nature. He specialized in atmospheric images of architecture, city scenes and landscapes; some bustling with people and automobiles, others quite timeless and serene. Kasimir developed his own technique, which was much more suited to the particular clarity of his compositions.

Color etching and aquatint. C. 1924. Plate size measures 27 1/4 x 18 1/2 on 23 x 33 inch paper, laid down on a 34 x 24 1/4 inch mat. The scene is of the Arch of the Septimius Severus in Rome. Pencil and plate signed in the lower right. Kasimir studied at the Vienna Academy of Art, although much of his etching technique was self taught and learned through working from nature. He specialized in atmospheric images of architecture, city scenes and landscapes; some bustling with people and automobiles, others quite timeless and serene.

Color mezzotint on paper depicting the artist's tools. Pencil numbered in the lower left 29/85. Pencil titled and signed. Plate size measures 11 1/4 x 15 3/4″in a 20 x 24 inch black and gold frame. C. 1981, pencil dated in the lower right.

Etching from 1925. Plate signed and dated and dated in the lower right. Numbered in ink in the lower left, print 3 in an edition of 60, ink signed "Lumsden imp", indicating that the artist printed it himself. Plate measures 10 7/8 x 11 7/8 on 12 1/2 x 14 7/8 inch watermarked laid type paper. Catalog: C 505. Made during his eastern trips to India. This print has effective use of plate tone to depict sky and sea and interesting linework in the sails. Lumsden was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1909 and raised to the full membership in 1915.

Etching and drypoint from 1922. Pencil signed in the lower right. One of a series of five etchings from his series "The Arteries of Great Britain." Published by Dickins in 1922, in an edition of 425. Catalog: Dickins 73. Image measures 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches on 9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inch wove type paper. The scene is of the open Swing Bridge, from a vantage point of the High Level Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne. An atmospheric print with selectively wiped plate tone. Walcot was born in Russia, the son of a British father and Russian mother.

Drypoint from 1932. Signed in ink below the image. Inscription in lower right reads: "Impression selected for my friend Harold Bailey - E. Blampied" 1/100. Plate size measures 8 3/8 x 11 7/8 on 11 1/2 x 17 1/4 inch laid type paper. A richly inked, atmospheric print.

Etching from 1896. Catalog: Rief 11, Wohl 11d (von f). An early impression. Pencil signed in the lower right with the word "Worpswede," the artist's colony that he was a part of. Image size measures 5 1/2 x 3 inches, plate measures 6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches, on laid 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inch paper. A haunting image with interesting linework.

Etching, aquatint, and drypoint. IV/VII state. April 1st, 1908. Catalog: Arwas 363. Seven states. Plate signed in the upper right, pencil signed and numbered in the lower right. Collector's stamp in the lower right. Numbered 89 in an edition of 100. Image size measures 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches on 20 1/4 x 14 1/4 inch wove type paper. A dramatic, ethereal print with a wide tonal range, using light to convey that the dancer is about to go onstage.