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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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15. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) Hobb’s Hawth, No. 2 |
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Hobb’s Hawth, No. 2
Drypoint, 1903, 274 x 398 mm., Hardie 366. Very fine impression with rich burr on laid paper with large, full margins, signed in pencil, and with the flower blindstamp of an unknown collector. Although he made comparatively few of them, Short was also a master of drypoint technique, which he uses to establish dramatic chiaroscuro of light and shadow and not at all as a substitute for mezzotint. The sheer isolation of the little house is emphasized in the vast acreage of undeveloped landscape, the sketchy plants in the foreground establishing the depth of field. The scene is in the Cradle Valley, near Seaford, in East Sussex.
