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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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5. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) Old Mill on the Wandle at Mitcham |
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Old Mill on the Wandle at Mitcham
Etching, 1899, 222 x 299 mm. Hardie 314. Fine impression with even plate tone on laid paper with good margins, signed in pencil; bits of old brown paper hinges in the top margin. This is one of the outdoor etched sketches that Short made, presumably for his own use or perhaps as gifts to friends. A few proofs only are known to exist. The composition is clear and lovely, the shadows clearly indicated, but there is no attempt to produce a finished plate; in fact, the lower half is essentially blank. Such sketches bring us close to the mind of the artist and allow us to see the scene through his eyes, concentrating on what interested him and eliminating what did not. Obviously, a rare plate. The Wandle is a small river (nine miles long) that flows through southwest London and empties into the Thames. Mitcham is a town in Merton, a borough of greater London.
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$400.00 |  |
