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Etchings, Mezzotints & Aquatints of Sir Frank Short on the 100th Anniversary
of the Private View of his works in London
Etchings, Mezzotints & Aquatints of Sir Frank Short on the 100th Anniversary
of the Private View of his works in London
- Invitation Card
- In a Cider Country
- The Head of Langston
- Derwentwater
- Old Mill on the Wandle
- Solway Fishers
- Knaresborough
- A Lane in Arundel
- In the Cotswolds
- Ehrenbreitstein, No. 1
- Ehrenbreitstein, No. 2
- A Pastoral
- Screel Hill
- The Snow Drift
- Hobb’s Hawth, No. 2
- The Lost Sailor
- Old Quai on the Nith
- Lucerne
- A Roman Canal
- A Roman Canal
- A Street in Monikendam
- The “Victory”
- “The Street,” Whitstable
- Cottage and Harvesters
- Portrait of Two Gentlemen
- ‘Twixt Dawn and Day
- Pan and Syrinx
- Moonrise on the Bure
- Stonehenge at Daybreak
- The Mooring Stone
- Shipping at the Entrance
- Per Horse-Power Per Hour
- Polperro from the Cliffs
- A Yorkshire Dell
- The Coast Road
- Mount St. Gothard
- A Dutch Greengrocerie
- A Woody Landscape
- Hawk’s Brow and Seaford Head
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36. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) Mount St. Gothard |
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Mount St. Gothard
Etching and mezzotint, 1920, 200 x 275 mm., Hardie 14 trial proof d. Very fine, rich proof impression in brown on laid paper with good margins, signed in pencil, annotated “trial proof, two taken. 9.12.20,” “d,” and “4-1. sky re-rocked,” and additionally initialed at the corner of the sheet. The subject had been engraved by Charles Turner at the painter’s request, and Short had come across a proof impression that had been annotated by J. M. W. Turner with instructions to the engraver. Short felt that those instructions had never really been carried out and so his plate was an attempt to do so. He took exceptional care in the process, his own plate going through fourteen trial proofs before the published state was reached. As an early proof, this impression shows every subtle gradation of tone with exceptional clarity.
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$600.00 |  |
