This is a drypoint etching by British artist Percival Gaskell. The title is Ravaged Hillside, created circa 1920, this view of hillside with cut trees from an extensive logging operation. The image measures 8X11 1/8 inches. Hand signed by the artist in pencil. Printed with a warm toned ink on a medium weight wove type paper.
This is an original etching by California artist John Winkler. The title is: Delicatessen Booth, San Francisco, created circa 1920 this etching is hand signed in pencil lower left border. The image measures 11X6 1/2 inches. " Winkler studied at the California Institute of Arts and published his first original etching in 1915. During the following eight years he established a large national reputation for his etchings, the great majority being depictions of San Francisco and its environs...Like Whistler, Winkler had the ability to capture life and movement with the utmost simplicity." T.O.P.
Engraving after L. Lagrenee, image size: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches, sheet size: 12 1/2 x 10 inches, Fogg Museum provenance, J W Randall collection #7061
Engraving, image size 14 1/2 x 17 3/8 inches, pencil signed and numbered 11/100
This is an original copper engraving by British artist William Hogarth. The title of this work is: The Times, Plate II. Created in 1762, this engraving is thought to have been brought by the artist's wife to Boydell of London for publication in 1790. This is the forth state of four. The image measures 9 1/8X11 7/8 inches, the overall sheet size is: 12 1/2X16 1/4 inches. This image was printed on an early laid type paper. Very nice condition but does have some unobtrusive foxing marks, mostly in the border area.
(information on both plates, I and II...)
"This pair of engravings have a complicated publishing history. Plate ‘b’ was unfinished at Hogarth’s death and it is unclear whether this first proof state was published by Mrs Hogarth late in life or as the first of the sequence of later states by Boydell after 1790. To further complicate the issue, the contemporary collector George Stevens (1736-1800) has written on his copy of this state that it was ‘taken during the life time of Hogarth’, but it was not until June 1781 that he (according to Malone’s letter to Lord Charlemont) ‘ransacked Mrs. Hogarth's house for obsolete and unfinished plates’, so perhaps the inscription may be taken with a pinch of salt. (sic) With The Times Plate I Hogarth took a decisive political, and at this time unpopular position to support the peace movement against the Seven Years' War (also called the French Indian War) spearheaded by King George III and his chief advisor, Lord Bute. Bute's opponent and leader of the Commons, William Pitt, supported the interests of the war and the economic profit derived from the colonial exploitations it permitted. In this first state Henry VIII (Pitt in later states) marches on stilts to fan the fires of war which the Union Officer of the King is trying to extinguish with a fire engine. William Beckford, the Lord Mayor and Pitt follower, who made a fortune through tobacco and sugar plantations in Jamaica, appears in the doorway on the left and points to a signboard advertising a naked Indian that reads 'Alive from America.' In the foreground women die of starvation in the street and a drunken fiddler plays his violin. Plate II of The Times depicts a more peaceful and prosperous Britain. Plants are nourished by water spouting from the monument of George III, with the elegant Lord Bute as the chief gardener of the State, controlling access to the King. A gigantic palette dangling from the facade of a newly-erected public building indicates that under the reign of the young King art flourishes. 'Ms Fanny' (a reference to the Cock Lane Ghost) and 'Wilkes', a fervent opponent of the King and Bute, appear in the pillory, while to the left those few members of Parliament who are still awake, including Pitt with bandaged legs, shoot at the dove of peace in the sky."
This is an original drypoint etching by French artist Alphonse Legros (1837-1911). Las Vieilles Carrieres de Mont Rouge was created and printed circa 1880's in an edition of 22. The image measures 3 5/8X7 1/8 inches. This etching is hand signed lower right in pencil. Fine condition, Ref. Bliss 351
This is an original etching by New England artist Phillip Little. This view of sailboats at sunset was created and printed in 1915 in an edition of 25. This one is numbered as 1. It is pencil signed and dated, printed on a thin japan type paper. The image measures 9 3/4X8 inches.
Engraving after I. Oliver, 1738, image size 14 3/16 x 8 7/8 in, sheet 17 1/2 x 12 1/2 in
This is an unusual underwater view. An original wood engraving by American artist Leo Meissner. The title Aquatic World, also known as Submarine World, Created and printed circa 1940. The image measures 8X10 inches. Hand signed and titled in pencil. Numbered 51/55. This wood engraving is in fine condition, printed on a thin Japan like sheet.
This is a very fine original pencil signed wood engraving by British artist George Soper. This winter scene of a Farmer feeding the cattle has an image size of 5X7 1/2 inches. Nicely framed with archival materials.
This is a very fine original etching by Scottish artist William Strang. The image size is 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches, published in 1883 in an edition of 60, cat: University of Glasgow-35, pencil signed below the image, titled and inscribed 'first plate' in the lower margin. A very classically styled composition of a biblical scene, this etching features a rich impression with nice plate tone.
Drypoint etching, image size 4 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches, 1913, ed. of 35, pencil signed. From "10 Radierte Tierstudien von Max Slevogt."
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