This is an original color wood block print by Japanese artist Toyohara Chikanobu. It was from his series of Jidai Kagami (Mirror of the Ages) It is from the Meiji Period, circa 1890's. This one is titled: Bijin in the Koka Era. The image measures 12 7/8X8 1/8 inches. Finely presented in a custom linen matting.
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."
This is an original etching of New York City by American artist Abbo Ostrowsky. This etching done circa 1930 has an image size of 11 1/2X7 7/8 inches. Hand signed in pencil lower right border. Finely detailed nice use of plate-tone in the sky and ground.
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
This is a very fine original etching with drypoint by Marine artist Lt.-Com. Rowland Langmaid. The image size is 3 1/2 x 13 inches, c. 1930, edition of 150, pencil signed and titled, with the original label.
Etching, image size: , Dated 1911, ed 25/110, pencil signed,image size 11 5/8X12 3/8 inches.
This is an original etching and drypoint by American artist Louis Rosenberg. It is titled "Temple of Minerva", it was created and printed in 1927.pencil signed lower right border. The image measures 8 3/4X13 1/4 inches. Fine use of plate tone in thee sky. A beautiful rich impression.
This is a drypoint etching by British artist James McBey. The title is: Monnickendam, created and printed in 1910. The image measures 5 1/2X9 1/2 inches. Hand signed and numbered XXIII in sepia ink. Monnickendam is a city in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Waterland, and lies on the coast of the Markermeer,
An early old master engraving. Plate measures 10 x 15 1/8 inches. Inscribed in the lower left: "J Van Campen formis venetys," below that "Tan. in." and in the center "V. Lefebre del. et sculp".
This is a richly inked original etching of the town of North Adams in Western Massachusetts. Image size 10 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches, 1923, signed, titled and dated in the plate, pencil signed and titled.
This is a bustling Middle Eastern street scene with a remarque of horses running in the desert along the lower edge of the image. Etching, image size 10 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches, c. 1940, edition of 25, pencil signed and numbered.
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."
Etching, image size 4 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches, 1606, inscribed "A parente Hercules deitate hones Fatur," an illustration from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," Ferdinand Roten Galleries Provenance.
Etching, 1925, edition 100, image size: 4 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches, pencil signed
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