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.

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

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.

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.

"The Post Office" measures 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches and is pencil signed and numbered. Schutz was founder of the NY Graphic Society. Born in Germany and living there for many years, including some spent in the German Army in WW1, Schutz emigrated to the US in 1924 and attended the Art Student's League of NY, working with Joseph Pennell.

This is a fine original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Gordon H. Grant.  The title is Home Port, created and printed in 1940, published by Associated American Artists in New York.  The edition was 232.  The image measures 9X11 1/2 inches.  Clearly signed lower border, beautiful condition.  

Gordon Hope Grant was born in San Francisco and educated in Scotland. After Scotland Hope studied at the Heatherly and Lambeth Art School in London and returned to San Francisco where he worked as an illustrator for local newspapers until 1896, when he moved to New York as an illustrator.

Later in life Grant lived on Rocky Neck, Gloucester, MA for 20 years. Here he focused on the harbor and its surroundings for much of his work. 

A member of numerous professional societies, his work is held in important collections nationwide, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

This rare engraving by John Sartain, after Da Cortona, measures 17 x 11 3/8 inches on heavy weight laid type paper. Part of a fresco painted by Da Cortona in the Duomo at Orvieto Cathedral in Italy. Published in London by William Young Ottley in May of 1825. Plate number at top right.

A richly inked original etching with aquatint, this image measures 6 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, c. 1930, pencil signed.

This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Helen Noel.  The title is: The Nude and the Nun, created and printed circa 1930's.  The image measures 14 1/4X10 inches, printed on a Besingwerk watermarked sheet.  Helen Noel was employed in Chicago's District 10 Art Division of the Works Progress Administration WPA Federal Art Works Program. 

Lithograph, image size 7 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches, Barker 33, ed. of 76, pencil signed

Etching, image size 14 3/4 x 11 inches, c. 1880, plate signed l.l. "Robt. R. Wiseman"

This fine cityscape by Anton Schutz, created in 1930, measures 14 x 9 3/4 inches. It is an artist proof, second state and pencil signed. Schutz worked with Joseph Pennell at the Art Student's League and was known for his east coast cityscapes.

Etching with drypoint, image size 8 x 10 inches, 1935, pencil signed l.r, titled in pencil in the l.l. margin. Illustrated in "Fine Prints of the Year 1935."

This is a fine etching by British artist and print maker Percival Gaskell.  This lake view is pencil signed lower border.  The image measures 6X9 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.

This etching by Daubigny measures 7 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches, "Daubigny pinx 8c sculp" on l.l., "PARC A MOUTONS, LE MATIN." on l.c. and "Imp. Delatre, Rue des Feuillantines; 4, Paris." on l.r., D. 95, between 2nd and 3rd state of 4, center crease.