Otto Bacher

Etching, image size 13 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches, plate size 15 x 10 inches, 1884, printed on medium weight laid paper, plate signed "Otto H. Bacher Forest City", "A Wheel Of Three Generations In 1884" on bottom of print. Bacher began etching in Cleveland in 1876 and continued his art in Munich, Paris and Venice.

Etching, image size 3X8", plate signed

Etching, image size: 7 3/16 x 9 3/4 inches, 1888, plate signed lower right

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

A view of a Venice canal by the artist, Otto Bacher, measuring 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Created in 1880, plate signed, titled and dated. Part of his "Venice Set".

This is a fine and rare etching by American artist Otto H. Bacher.  The title of this pencil signed impression is: Venice, Shipping and the Ducal Palace, This etching was created and printed in 1880.  Bacher along with a group of pupils of Frank Duveneck followed him to Florance and Venice to be with him for the summer.  It was there that Bacher met and worked with Whistler.  The image measures 4 1/2X 12 3/8 inches.  Printed on an early wove type sheet with a E.E. C. watermark.