Prints

This is a pair of fine wood engraving by Czech artist and member of the anti Nazi resistance fighters in WWII Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (1895-1942)  Both of these wood engravings are hand signed in pencil and also stamped on the back with the artists name.  The color image measures a sheet size of 6 1/2X4 inches, dated 1932.  The other image measures 4 1/2X2 3/4 inches. 

Dobrovolsky was a well known print maker and book illustrator in the Czech republic.  He was captured by the Nazi's and died in the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1942.  Both images are in very good condition and sold as a pair for the one price.

1893, image size 8 3/4x11 3/4 inches, plate signed

Engraving after Claude Lorrain. C. 1700. Print measures 9 x 13 inches on wove type paper.

Etching, image size: 9 7/8 x 4 15/16 inches, pencil signed

Etching, image size 3 x 3 7/8 inches.

Wood Engraving, after a painting by John Opie, image size 6 5/8 x 5 inches, plate dated 1898, printed by Bauer 1902, pencil signed

etching,3 3/4X5",pencil signed

Wood Engraving, image size 5 1/8 x 6 3/8 inches, after a painting by George Morland, plate dated 1898, edition of 150, printed by Bauer in NY 1902, pencil signed

Etching; Where Tennyson wrote the "Idylls of the King", image size 6 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches, titled and pencil signed

Etching, image size 4 3/8 x 3 3/8 inches, plate initialed.

Woodblock, image size 4 x 6 1/2 inches, 1937, pencil signed and dated. As is typical with this artist, he hand signed and dated his images on the paper window mat rather than the sheet itself.

This etching by the American artist Hopper Emory measures 4 7/8 x 6 inches and is pencil signed. Emory was born in Baltimore, Maryland and had a successful career in banking before he turned exclusively to his artwork. He traveled to England where he studied at the Heatherly School of Art in London, then returned to Maryland where he became known for his delicately rendered architectural and maritime etchings.

Etching, 7 3/4 x 10 inches, plate signed

20th century woodblock print by Sam Miller measures 6 x 5 inches, pencil signed, titled and numbered 19/32.

Two states of the same plate, etching image size 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches, signed in plate