Prints

A drypoint etching from 1920. A well inked impression with good use of plate toning. Plate measures 5 x 10 inches on 6 1/2 x 11 1/4 inch wove paper. Pencil signed in the lower right.

Etching, drypoint, image size 9 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches, 1935, pencil signed l.r. "Philip Kappel". Selected for "Fine Prints of the Year", 1936, pl.74. The image was made on the Columbia Line's Bogota or Columbia. The Haitian crew used soft volcanic tufa to scrub down the wooden decks. The bulldog, center, was the vessel's mascot.

Etching, image size 12 1/2 x 17 7/8 inches

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.

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.

A very fine original etching of General Castro's adobe house in San Juan Baptista, California. Image size 5 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches, 1920, pencil signed and titled.

This is an original etching by Barbizon artist Charles Emile Jacque.  The title is: Le Chemin de Halage, (The Towing Path) created and printed in 1864.  This image is plate signed by the artist Jacque and also signed by the printer Sarazin, printed in Paris.   The image measures 6X4 7/8 inches.  Printed on a chine colle adhered to a thicker sheet of wove type paper.
"Charles Jacque 'Charles Emile Jacque': During the 1840's a most important movement began in French art. A number of painters began settling in the tiny village of Barbizon and dedicated their art to portrayals of nature and rustic life. Given that the mainstream of traditional French art was still mired in the genres of classical and historical paintings this was indeed a revolutionary step. Barbizon artists gained their inspiration from both the great landscape etchings and paintings of Rembrandt and other Dutch 17th century masters and from the contemporary landscape art of such British artists as Constable and Turner. In its turn, Barbizon etchings and paintings led the way to the beginnings of French Impressionism in the following generation.

Many of the leading artists associated with the Barbizon school were also fine etchers. Within this category one should mention such names as Corot, Millet and Daubigny. Charles Emile Jacque, however, dedicated his career to the art of etching and became the most active Barbizon artist in this field. He is thus considered a major precursor to the French etching revival of the 1860's."

A very fine etching of the hills above San Francisco Bay by John Winkler. Created in 1919, it measures 6 x 8 1/2 inches, is pencil signed and printed in an edition of 35. Winkler did a series of etchings portraying everyday life in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Original pencil signed and titled etching, image size is 13 7/8 X 8 7/8 inches. Created and printed in 1952, the image is of the artists grand daughter holding her doll.

Etching,1924,artists proof,image size 6 3/4X9 5/8",pencil signed

This etching by Louise Ibels measures 10 1/8 x 7 inches. Created in 1964, it is plate titled and dated on the lower left and pencil signed on the lower right. This artists proof is done on a heavy weight paper with wide margins.

Etching,D92,as published in Gazette Des Beaux Arts,4 5/8X7 1/4",platesigned

Wood Engraving, image size: 7 x 9 1/8 inches, ed. 10/50, pencil signed and titled

Etching, image size: 7 7/8 x 5 15/16 inches, pencil signed lower right

Etching, image size: 3 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches, pencil signed lower center