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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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13. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) Screel Hill and Urr Water from Kipford |
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Screel Hill and Urr Water from Kipford
Soft-ground etching and mezzotint, 1934, 252 x 363 mm., Hardie 136. Fine impression on simili-japon paper with large, full margins, signed in pencil; some wrinkling in the margins, far from the image. Were any proof needed that Short was an artist and not just a brilliant technician of print making it might be found here. This large, darkening scene of mountains, water and reflections is highlighted by a crescent moon and its echo in the water. But, in a wonderful touch, Short inserts a small spot of light (and its reflection), perhaps a campfire, on the distant shore, which, by triangulating with the moon and its reflection both balances the overall composition and establishes the depth of the foreground with the utmost economy. Without wanting to overstate the matter, it is still a touch worthy of a Rembrandt. The scene is of a bay off the Solway Firth in the far southwest of Scotland; England is across the firth.
