This is an original drypoint etching by British artist James McBey. The title is: Thanet from Richborough, created and pritned in 1912. The image measures 5 3/8X11 3/8 inches. Catalog Salaman 119. At right, the ivy-covered wall of Richborough Castle, in Kent on the southeast coast of England, juts out into sunlight. The distant shore of the Isle of Thanet is visible in the background (The Met)
Pencil and plate signed in bottom right. Plate size measures 6 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches on 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 wove type paper. Featured in Fine Prints of the Year in 1927.
A richly inked original etching of a sunny European city street, this image measures 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, published in 1950 for the Chicago Society of Etchers, pencil signed and inscribed "To my friend J. R. Brownell".
Etching, image size: 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 1909, cat. Guerin-53, inscribed 1st etat, pencil signed lower right
This is an original mezzotint etching by British artist Percival Gaskell. This view of river rapids has an image of 9 1/2X 13 5/8 inches. Pencil signed lower right border, printed on a chin collet adhered to a thicker sheet. Printed with a warm toned ink. Gaskell is one of the best of the early British mezzotint artists.
This is a fine original engraving by French artist Jean Emile Laboureur. It is titled lower left border, Marine aux L Bateaux, it was created and printed in 1923 and is numbered 33/45. The image measures 5 1/2X4 1/2 inches. Hand signed in pencil lower left border, printed on a wove type watermarked paper.
Etching from the series "The Life of Saint Monique," image size 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 in, 1930, monogram in plate
Etching on laid-type paper, printed in brown-toned ink. Pencil signed in the lower right. C. 1925.
Image measures 9 3/4 x 7 inches, sheet size measures 15 x 12 inches.
Etching, image size 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches, 1901, Dodgson 101, edition of about 90, plate signed l.l. "Muirhead Bone". the published edition of 90 proofs was not pencil signed.
This is a very fine impressionistic portrait of the Ballet Dancer Carrina Ari (1897-1970) This etching was created and printed by German artist Ernest Oppler. The image circa 1920 is pencil signed and numbered 79/120. The image measures 9 3/8X6 inchesm printed on a laid type sheet, medium weight. Oppler was a well known artist whose main subjects were the Ballet, Modern Dance and the Stage.
This lovely image of a young girl by the English printmaker Mortimer Menpes measures 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches and is pencil signed with an "imp" after his name indicating he was the printer. Etching and drypoint, dated 1882 in the plate. Menpes attended the School of Art in London in 1878 and started exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1880. He became a major figure in the etching revival, producing more than seven hundred different etchings and drypoints, which he usually printed himself.
This is a fine original etching by British artist Robert Austin. The title: Medicanti (The Beggars) is hand signed in pencil and dated 1924. The image measures 4 1/2X3 3/4 inches. Printed on a medium weight laid type paper with the P.G. Head watermark.
This is an original etching by French artist Louis Legrand. The title is: Le Bon Bedeau, (The Good Beadle) It was created and printed in 1905 in an edition of 50. The image measures 21 1/4X14 1/4 inches. Pencil signed lower right with the red publishers stamp next to the signature. Editioned as 8/40. Printed on a medium weight wove type paper.
This is a fine original line engraving by British artist Robert S. Austin. The title is "Scythes Resting in a Tree",created and printed in 1928, the image measures 5X3 1/2 inches. Pencil signed by the artist, numbered 11/75. Robert Sargent Austin was a highly respected illustrator and engraver, sometimes regarded as the last great English engraver. He taught at the Royal College of Art and was eventually elected president of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.
Drypoint etching, image size 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches, 1946, pencil signed and numbered 51/110, published by the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français.
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