38. Charles Adams Platt
(1861-1939)
Deventer, Holland

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Platt, Deventer, Holland

Deventer, Holland

Etching, 1885, 80 x 147 mm., Rice 63a. Fine impression in black-brown on thick laid paper with full margins, as published in the catalog of the New York Etching Club. Platt was an important figure in American art as a painter, etcher, architect and landscape architect and garden designer. He was a member of the New York Etching Club, as were the Morans and Parrish and most of the early figures of the American Etching Revival. The Etching Club published, each year, a catalog of new etchings by their members and included in those catalogs were many etchings, most often smaller versions of the recent etchings listed. These were not reduced-size reproductions but original etchings done by the artists, reinterpreting their subjects on a smaller scale. Quite probably, nothing like this had ever been done before, and these small versions had their own charm and collectable appeal. Platt’s little miniature here is a fair and inexpensive example of his etched work.