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Temple of the Dea Tussis
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching and aquatint with engraving on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), full margins. Small spots of adhesive resi...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Meaux Cathedral II
By John Marin
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Gazette de Beaux Arts, 1907. Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches (225 x 292 mm), narrow lefthand margin, with a full margin with a deckle edge on ...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
South Porch of Chartres Cathedral
By Thomas Shotter Boys
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Charles Joseph Hullmandel, 1839.
Oil stick color lithograph on cream wove paper, 14 3/16 x 11 inches; (360 x 280 mm), full margins. Scattered light yellow spots of discolora...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Prints
Materials
Oil Pastel, Handmade Paper, Lithograph
The Windmill by François Vivares, after Rembrandt
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 x 5 7/8 inches (202 x 149 mm), trimmed at the platemark. Adhered at each corner to a small sheet of archival laid paper. Horizontal edge loss at the ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins by James Bretherton after Rembrandt
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Middletown, NY
Bretherton, James (After Rembrandt van Rijn).
Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins.
London: c 1775.
Etching on light cream laid paper, 4 3/4...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Picturesque New York; Twelve Photogravures from Monotypes
By Charles Frederick William Mielatz
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: The Society of Iconophiles, 1908. The complete portfolio containing 12 photogravures after monotypes printed on O.W. handmade paper. Each image measuring approximately 8 1/4 x 6 inches (208 x 151 mm), with full margins. Each with the Society of Iconophiles blind stamp in the lower left margin. In very good condition with no visible defects. Printed by John Andrew & Son, Boston. Presented in the original greenish-gray paper wrapper with the contents page. Edition of 100.
Subjects are:
1. Van Cortland Manor House
2. Oyster Market on West Street
3. St. John's Chapel, Varick Street
4. Fraunces Tavern
5. Houses at Battery Park...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Photogravure
PARIS: Porte Rouge Notre Dame
Rue des Marmousets
By Thomas Shotter Boys
Located in Middletown, NY
Lithograph in colors with engraving on buff wove paper. Each of the two images measures 10 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches (271 x 167 mm), with the sheet measuring 14 1/4 x 20 1/2 inches (360 x 5...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Le Marché aux Puces
By Auguste Brouet
Located in Middletown, NY
Published in Paris by Chalcographie Louvre around 1910. Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 7 x 11 inches (175 x 278 mm) full margins. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind st...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Matinée Avenue de Clichy
By Auguste Brouet
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 9 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (240 x 271 mm) full margins. Signed in the image, lower left. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind stamp in the lowe...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Venus Lamenting over the Death of Adonis
By Herman van Swanevelt
Located in Middletown, NY
c. 1654. Etching with engraving on thin laid paper with an early and large unidentified watermark with a sundial and a many-pointed star, and an unidentified collector's stamp in the...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Coentes Slip, NY
By Frederick Leo Hunter
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on hand made laid Japan paper with a deckle edge, 8 9/16 x 11 5/8 inches (220 x 296 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and titled in pencil in the margin, recto. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Rue de Marmousets, Paris; From Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, ....
By Thomas Shotter Boys
Located in Middletown, NY
Aquatint with hand coloring in oil color on smooth wove paper, 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches (270 x 187 mm), full margins. Laid down to a support, as issued. Moderate toning and surface soil...
Category
1830s English School Figurative Prints
Materials
Oil, Handmade Paper, Aquatint
Tugs on the Hudson
By Charles Frederick William Mielatz
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching with engraving printed in black ink on Japanese mulberry paper, 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (113 x 84 mm), full margins. In superb condition. A beautiful New York City river...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
En Provence; la Maison d
Orléans (Valognes)
By Félix Hilaire Buhot
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching in brownish black ink on cream laid paper, 5 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches (135 x 87 mm), partially trimmed lower sheet edge. With the artist's moniker in ...
Category
1840s French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Byloke, Ghent; From Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen...
By Thomas Shotter Boys
Located in Middletown, NY
Aquatint with hand coloring in oil color on smooth wove paper, 10 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches (266 × 370 mm), full margins. Moderate mat tone, scattered spots of light brown discoloration in...
Category
1830s English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Oil, Handmade Paper, Aquatint
The Grosse Horloge and Fountain, Rouen, Normandy.
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper with an unknown watermark with an AL inside a ribbon. 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (258 x 187 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil lower margin. In good condition with one small, very minor 1/4- inch horizontal tear in lower-center quadrant of the image area, in the area of the doorway beneath the arch, very difficult to discern, and completely unobtrusive. 1/2-inch minor horizontal edge tear center sheet edge, bottom margin (outside of image area). Paper tape from a previous hinge at top right and left sheet edges. Light scattered age tone and surface soiling.
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Perhaps now most famous for one particular illustration for an edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Sullivan's etching of a skeleton crowned in roses was appropriated by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
From the Ponte Vecchio, Florence
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and aquatint on hand made F.J. Head & Co watermarked cream laid paper, full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right margin. From the edition of 160 (from a total of ...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Shadows of Venice
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and aquatint on antique laid paper, wide margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Edition of 100" in pencil, lower margin. Second state (of 2)....
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Rouen; The Cathedral of Notre Dame from the South
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on F.J. Head & Co. watermarked cream laid paper, 8 1/8 x 7 5/8 (205 x 184 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Illustrated in Dorothy Noyes Arms, Chur...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Veduta del Tempio della Fortuna Virile, from Raccolta delle più belle Vedute ...
By Giuseppe Vasi
Located in Middletown, NY
By Giuseppe Vasi after Giovanni Piranesi: Etching and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on laid paper with an E and R watermark, full margins. Minor...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching
Two Goats, from "Daphnis
Chloe"
By Aristide Maillol
Located in Middletown, NY
Woodcut on hand made laid paper with the publisher's watermark designed by the artist, full margins. From the special suite of 53 woodcut illustrations which were laid in loose to t...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Chateau de Verneuil
By Matthäus Merian the Elder
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving with hand coloring and heightening in watercolor on two leaves of expertly conjoined handmade laid paper, one leaf with a large watermark a feathered dragon, 7 1/4 x 11 1/4...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
St. Paul
s From Ludgate Hill, from Original Views of London As It Is
By Thomas Shotter Boys
Located in Middletown, NY
Lithograph with hand tinting on heavy wove paper, full margins. Significant condition issues in the margins which include adhesive residue, edge tears and minor edge losses. The image area is clean with minor mat tone, however, colors are slightly attenuated. The verso shows moderate uneven toning. Issues primarily exist outside of the image area. This large and lively work was printed by Charles Hullmandel.
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The images in Boys's 1842 portfolio, Original Views of London...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Lithograph
San Marino (Sketch)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Ecthing in black ink on cream laid paper with a partial watermark, full margins. In excellent condition. A very scarce work from an edition of less than 20 impressions. Signed, date...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Fiesole, an Ancient Tower
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches (201 x 130 mm), full margins. Edition of 150. Printed by Federick Reynolds. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Arms wa...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
La Bella Venezia
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
(New York: John Taylor Arms, 1930)
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a fancy "G" watermark, 7 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches (182 x 442 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 70" in pencil, lower margin. From a total edirion of 81 plus 5 trial proofs. Printed by Henry E. Carling. Number 18 from the Italian Series. A superb impression of this scarce print, with all of the subtleties and details of the reflections in the water printing clearly. [Fletcher 232]
[Illustrated: Page 192, Arms, Dorothy Noyes, "Hilltowns and Cities of Northern Italy"].
Along with his constant companion and wife, Dorothy Noyes, Arms spent decades exploring and documenting gothic structures throughout Europe. Noyes, an accomplished travel writer, had gifted Arms an etching set...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Lake Constance ; The Oberstadt at Bregenz with Lake Constance (the Bodensee) Bey
By (After) Joseph Mallord William Turner
Located in Middletown, NY
Lake Constance
c 1850.
Watercolor on cream wove paper mounted on thin card stock, 10 x 12 1/2 inches (255 x 320 mm), wide margins. Adhesive residue aro...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor
Chartres, The Magnificent
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on handmade cream laid paper, 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (890 x 108 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "III" in pencil, lower margin. Edition of 150, third state (of th...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Coutances
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on thin, bluish-green cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (233 x 120 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. First and only state. Printed by Frederi...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Porta del Paradiso, Venezia
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 1930. 7 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches (190 x 970 mm), full margins. Signed and inscribed "Edition 100" in pencil, lower margin. In very good condition with minor s...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Durham Cathedral - English School
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on cream laid paper with a partial Arches watermark, 5 3/8 x 4 inches (135 x 100 mm), full margins. Signed illegibly in pencil in the lower right margin.
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Moulins de Hollande
By Johan Barthold Jongkind
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper. 5 7/16x7 7/16 inches (137 x 188 mm). Scattered toning, age stain, and scattered minor defects consistent with age. Second state (of 3).
[Delteil 14]
Jo...
Category
19th Century Dutch School Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
The Plank Bridge – Landschap met een bruggetje van planken
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on thin cream laid paper with a partial "M" or "W" watermark, 5 x 5 15/16 inches (126 x 150 mm), thread margins. Inscribed in the plate in the upper-right: “Antoni Waterlo fe...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Laid Paper
The Church of St. Francis and the Natizone – Cividale
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 10 x 14 13/16 inches (254 x 377 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and inscribed "Ed. 100" (from a total edition of 128). Third state (of three...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Le Ruisseau Dans La Clairière (The Brook in the Clearing)
By Charles François Daubigny
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: 1862. Cliché-verre on lightweight photosensitive wove paper, 8 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches (220 x 180 mm) (sheet), full margins. Signed in the plate, lower right. Because this impressi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Low Country (South Carolina)
By Elizabeth Verner
Located in Middletown, NY
An enchanting Southern landscape by the mother of the Charleston Renaissance, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner(1883-1979)
Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 6 15/16 x 5 1/16 inches (175 x 128 mm), full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 72/100 in pencil, lower margin. Uniform age tone, minor surface soiling. A rich and inky impression of a magical southern landscape with figure tilling soil under Spanish moss covered oaks.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Twickenham Church
By Sir Francis Seymour Haden, R.A.
Located in Middletown, NY
A luminous first state impression, Hamerton's "Portfolio" edition. Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 7 3/16 x 9 15/16 inches (135 x 213 mm), wide margins. First state (of 5)...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Sunset in Ireland
By Sir Francis Seymour Haden, R.A.
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on watermarked cream wove paper, 5 7/16 x 8 7/16 inches (39 x 215 mm), wide (perhaps full) margins. A very desirable, bright and richly inked impression, with the da...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Christ Crowned with Thorns, from The Passion of Christ
By Hendrick Goltzius
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream wove paper, 8 x 5 3/8 inches (203 x 137 mm), narrow to thread margins. First state (of 2). A fine impression with archival paper adhered at left top and bottom cor...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Last Supper, from The Passion of Christ
By Hendrick Goltzius
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 x 5 3/8 inches (203 x 137 mm), trimmed at the platemark. A fine impression with a Coat of Arms watermark. Second state, after the addition of the Frederick de Witt...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Victoria Station (London)
By Kenneth Holmes, A.R.C.A.
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely dark and inky impression, signed by the artist.
Drypoint etching on cream laid paper, 10 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (275 x 218 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower center marg...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Old Houses, Byres Road, Partick (Scotland)
By Sir David Young Cameron, R.A.
Located in Middletown, NY
Glasgow: Regality Club, 1894. Etching on cream laid paper with a poppy watermark, 4 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (115 x 148 mm) full margins. Notations in the margins recto, well outside of image area. Scattered very minor light brown foxing in the right-side sheet quadant, virtually invisible on recto.
[Rinder 191].
The son of a clergyman, Sir David Young Cameron was born in Glasgow in 1865. After a brief and unhappy dalliance in the fields of business and law, Cameron began attending the prestigious Glasgow School of the Arts in 1881, and later the Edinburgh School of the Arts. At first associated with the Glasgow Boys (John Lavery, Joseph Crawhall...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Almshouses, St. Cross
By Sir David Young Cameron, R.A.
Located in Middletown, NY
Glasgow: Walton's Compleat Angler, 1902. Etching on heavy Japan paper, 3 7/16 x 5 15/16 inches (80 x 149 mm), full margins. Initialed in pencil, lower ...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Forum of Minerva, Assisi, Italy
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on watermarked F J Head & Co. cream laid paper, 9 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (245 x 290 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower margin. Scattered age tone and mat t...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Communipaw, NY; January Thaw
By Thomas Moran
Located in Middletown, NY
A delicate composition of an industrial Hudson River town, seen from lower Manhattan; a view of what is now Liberty State Park.
New York: 1884. Etching with aquatint on cream laid p...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Passaic Meadows (In the Newark Meadows)
By Thomas Moran
Located in Middletown, NY
Boston: American Art Review, 1880. Etching on cream laid paper, 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (146 x 230mm), full margins. Light uniform age tone, scattered handling creases and minor toning ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
The Lych Gate; Little Church Around the Corner - New York
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and sand ground on cream laid paper, 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (262 x 193 mm), full margins. Inscribed "No. 29" in black ink, lower right margin. In good condition with minor tim...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Laid Paper
Rainy Day, Providence
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on Japan paper, 9 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (245 x 322 mm), full margins, from an edition of approximately 50. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower center margin, t...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Les Belles et la Bête: Before the Hunt
By Peter Milton
Located in Middletown, NY
Resist ground etching and engraving on cream wove paper, 22 x 39 inches (558 x 990 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 27/160 in pencil, lower margin. With the blindstamp of the printer, Robert E. Townsend, in the lower left margin. A beautiful, richly inked impression of this highly detailed, large image. In very good condition with minor mat tone, extremely minor scattered light surface soiling, and one pin-point sized dot of brown discoloration on the lower left margin, recto, well outside of image area.
[Milton 99].
Milton states that there is a metaphorical evolution at the root of his body of graphic work, and with Les Belles et la Bête, Before the Hunt, he found himself at a crossroads that he viewed as a sort of artistic adolescence, which he felt demanded a natural examination of mysteries of sexual awakening. The image is brimming with fantastical images and metaphors for the confrontation of sexual exploration; a Freudian analyst appears in the left of the image, scattered tableaus of paired figures...
Category
1970s American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Engraving, Etching
Les Belles et La Bête I: The Rehearsal
By Peter Milton
Located in Middletown, NY
Resist ground etching and engraving on Rives heavyweight buff paper, 20 x 36 inches (508 x 914 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 103/160 in pencil, lower margin. Minor mat tone. A rich and finely printed impression of this complex and iconic work by Milton. Framed handsomely under Plexiglas with archival materials in a solid wood frame with silver finish.
[Milton 98].
Milton states that in the evolution of his body of graphic work he found himself at point that necessitated the exertion of nerve in his subject matter. He found it imperative for growth to explore whether his compositions had previously been too polite, and through this process he experienced a great burst of artistic and psychic liberation. Milton refers to this awakening as a sort of adolescence, which he felt demanded a natural examination of mysteries of sexual awakening. Les Belles et La Bête...
Category
1970s American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Engraving, Etching
Mornings with Judd (Second state)
By Peter Milton
Located in Middletown, NY
Lift ground and hard ground etching and engraving on Murillo white wove paper, 18 x 24 inches (455 x 608 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, titled and numbered 60/100 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by the artist. In very good condition with minor age tone and scattered light surface soiling on the verso. Framed handsomely in an original Kulicke welded aluminum frame with the embossed maker's mark. [Milton 61].
Milton revisited this image in 1974 during an experiment to explore collage and the process of contact printing a high resolution photo-transparency directly onto a copper plate. He printed a small detail transparency of Mornings with Judd onto the existing plate, alongside it's larger self, and broke through to a new photo-resist approach, which Milton described as "piquant and irresistible," in his essays appearing in Robert Flynn...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Archival Paper
New York Skyline, NY; East River
By Leon Dolice
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on medium stock, cream wove paper, 5 15/16 x 10 3/16 inches (151 x 259 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A fine and detailed impression in dark bl...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Arcadian riverscape with different figures by a tree [Arcadisch rivierlandschap]
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful Arcadian landscape after Johannes Glauber.
Amsterdam: 1721.
Etching on handmade laid paper with an intact fleur-de-lis watermark. 203 x 275 mm; 8 x 10 7/8 inches, trimm...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
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On the Hard
Located in Middletown, NY
An elegant and delicate seascape of Brightlingsea Hard, Essex
circa 1925
18/75. Drypoint etching on cream laid paper, 5 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (138 x 198 mm), full margins. Signed and ...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint
Campagne boisée (Wooded countryside)
By Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Located in Middletown, NY
1866
Etching on cream wove paper. 5 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (138 x 110 mm), full margins. Third state (of 4). Light scattered age tone, and time stain. Scattered extremely light areas of ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Cat and Busybody
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Middletown, NY
A 1933 lithograph on cream wove paper 14 x 18 inches (354 x 452mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 17/33 in pencil, lower margin. Minor mat tone around the perimeter of t...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Palazzo dell
Angelo
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Palazzo dell'Angelo
1931
Etching and drypoint on cream-colored, handmade laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (185 x 171 mm), edition of 100, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered "Ed. 100" in pencil, lower margin, second state (of three). Printed by Henry Carling, New York. Extremely minor mat tone and some inky residue in the top right corner, all unobtrusive and well outside of image area. An exquisite impression of this intricate image, with astonishing detail, and all the fine lines printing clearly. The image represents the first print which Arms printed on his own handmade paper. Framed handsomely with archival materials and museum grade glass in a wood gilt frame with a flower and garland motif.
Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms, Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy, p. 180; Anderson, American Etchers Abroad 1880-1930; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940, p. 116.
[Fletcher 233]
Born in 1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned a degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912. With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etching in 1919. His first subjects were the Brooklyn Bridge, near the Navy Yard, and it was during his wartime travel that Arms created a series of extraordinarily detailed etchings based on Gothic cathedrals and churches he visited in France and Italy. He used what was available to him, namely sewing needles and a magnifying glass, to create the incredibly rich and fine detail that his etchings are known for. Upon his return to New York after the war, Arms enjoyed a successful career as a graphic artist, created a series of etchings of American cities, and published Handbook of Print Making and Print Makers (Macmillan, 1934). He served as President of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and in 1933, was made a full member of the National Academy of Design.
In its most modern incarnation, Palazzo dell'Angelo was constructed in or around 1570. The building, which has a rich and storied history, was erected upon the ruins of an earlier structure which predates the Gothic period. Some remnants of the earliest features of the residence were most certainly still visible when Arms visited, as they are today. Having a background in architecture, there's no question that Arms was moved by the beauty, history and ingenuity represented in the physical structure. One thing specifically gives away Arms's passion for the architecture, and that is the fact that he focused on the building's Moorish entranceway, balustrade, and two mullioned windows, and not on the curious Gothic era bas-relief of an angel nestled into the facade of the building, after which the structure is named. The sculpture itself doesn't appear in Arms's composition at all, despite the fact that it is the feature of the building that is most famous in its folklore. Arms instead focuses on the oldest portion of the architecture, even documenting some of the remnants of a fresco, and a funerary stele for the freedman Tito Mestrio Logismo, and his wife Mestria Sperata (visible above the water level, to the left of the door, behind the gondola), which was first described in 1436.
Among the many notable bits of history regarding the Palazzo, it has been documented that Tintoretto painted frescos of battle scenes on the facade of the building. The paintings have been lost to time and the elements, but not entirely to history. The empty frame...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Guardians of the Spire; Amiens Cathedral Number 2
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Guardians of the Spire; Amiens Cathedral Number 2
New York: 1937. Etching and drypoint on watermarked F.J. Head cream-colored, antique laid paper, 6 3/4 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
