Prints

This illustrative page from "The Great Mirror of Folly", 1720, was a volume of text with 76 engraved plates, documenting the international joint-stock scandal instigated by John Law. This great "Theater of Folly", representing the origin, progress, and downfall of the South Sea Bubble in France, England and Holland, is a collection of engraved plates with caricatures of the schemes of John Law and the Mississippi Company that lured clients to invest in establishing colonies in Louisiana and Canada with fatal results. Text below the image is in Dutch. An English description of the content of the book comes with this image.

This is an early wood engraving of an ancient Roman coin depicting Saint Helena Augusta Constantine, the mother of the 3rd century emperor Constantine the Great. This wood engraving measures 17 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches, published c. 1680, with a poem in German below the image.

Woodengraving,10X7",pencil signed

Etching, image size 9 3/4 x 10 7/8 in, pencil signed

Etching, image size 6 3/8 x 8 inches, 1908, Hardie 13. Signed and annotated in pencil "Dulieu's Pig Farm. Edn. 50. 1908. / Proof printed for me by Sir Frank Short, Dec. 1908." Provenance: Baldwin-Wallace College.

Lithograph, image size 5 3/4 x 7 7/16 inches, Barker 130, pencil signed and inscribed "Ed. 50."

Drypoint, image size: 7 7/8 x 9 7/8, pencil signed

This is a rare original etching by American 19th century etcher, Stephen Parrish.  The title is: In the Meadows, this etching was created  and  printed in  1880.  Hand signed in pencil lower right border, this image of a costal farm has an image size of 4 1/4X7 1/4 inches.  There are a couple of repairs in the border area, not in the image area.  This image has the artist's number of 23, meaning it was the 23rd etching that he created.  Printed in a sepia toned ink.

This seascape of a ship's deck, under very adverse weather conditions, by the American artist, Gordon Grant measures 9 x 12 inches and is pencil signed. Gordon Grant was born in California and was sent alone to Great Britain around Cape Horn when he was thirteen years old for his education. He worked as a staff artist for New York World and Harper's Weekly, covering both the Boer War and the Mexican Revolution, but became most widely known for his marine paintings and lithographs. He was a member of many artist's associations, including the National Academy of Design; American Federation of Art; Salmagundi Club; National Arts Club; American Watercolor Society; New York Society of Painters; and the New York Watercolor Club.

This is an original color etching by Austrian artist Hans Figura.  It is a view of the Tower Bridge on the Thames in London.  The image measures 8 3/4X12 1/4 inches.  This etching is hand signed in pencil in the lower right border.  Very nice condition.  "Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) noted painter and etcher who was well known for his aquatint etchings on paper or satin of European and American landscape and cityscape scenes, as well as paintings of landscape & cityscape scenes, Tyrolean Alp scenes of villages & chalets, street scenes, harbor & marine scenes ."

This rare proof impression of the portion of the plate which was cut to be used in the book entitled "Etchings & Engravings" by Frank Short measures 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, cat: Hardie-166, 1922, original aquatint, printed on a folded sheet for use as a card, plate signed.

Image size: 10 1/2X8 1/4",pencil signed,etching

Engraving, plate size 16 x 13 7/8 inches, after the self-portrait by William Hogarth, printed by James Heath, 1822.

Mezzotint by the British engraver and etcher, Sir Frank Short. It measures 4 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches and is pencil signed, after a watercolor by Peter de Wint, c. 1902, edition of 150, cat: Hardie-77.

Engraving, plate size 15 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches, 1795, engraving by Benjamin Smith after the self-portrait by William Hogarth, published by J & J Boydell, Cheapside, London.