GOING TO THE FAIR
New York Satellite Print Fair Selections
New York Satellite Print Fair Selections
- Dürer, Peasant Couple Dancing
- Beham, The Country Wedding
- Pencz, The Life of Christ
- Bonasone, The Vision of St. Jerome
- Callot, La Noblesse
- Della Bella, Death on Horseback
- Belloni, Ercole in Tebe
- Filloeul, Différents Caractères
- Canaletto, Imaginary View of Venice
- Piranesi, The Temple of Pola
- Basan, Dictionnaire des Graveurs
- Earlom, A Fruit Piece
- Janinet, Restes du Palais du Pape
- Terebenef, Caricature of Napoléon
- Gericault, Horses Going to a Fair
- Devéria, Music in the Salon
- Whistler, Limehouse
- Fulleylove, Church of Santa Fosca
- Buhot, Le Retour des Artistes
- Forain, En Cabinet Particulier
- Short, The Night Picket Boat
- Corinth, The Old King
- Hassam, Madonna of the North End
- Ensor, Bataille des Éperons
- Gandara, Portrait de Femme
- Higgins, Figure on the Stairs
- Orlik, Karrenschreber
- Laboureur, Images Bretonnes
- Laboureur, Flower Sellers, London
- Thorne, Pony and Bug
- Torre-Bueno, West 86th Street
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21. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) The Night Picket Boat at Hammersmith |
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The Night Picket Boat at Hammersmith
Mezzotint, 1916, 300 x 454 mm., Hardie 125 only state. Superb impression on heavy wove paper with full margins, signed in pencil; a few marks of foxing in the margins only. Although Hardie makes no mention of the size of the edition, it is likely to have been quite small, as the delicate effects and subtle contrasts would have worn quickly in printing. No impression of the print has been found at auction in the last 20 or so years.
Short was the master of all intaglio techniques of print making and when he found a subject and composition worthy of his abilities, the result was invariably a stunning image. That a good part of his work was after the designs of other artists takes nothing away from his own original compositions.
