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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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22. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) The “Victory” Coming up the Channel, with the Body of Nelson, No. 1 |
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The “Victory” Coming up the Channel, with the Body of Nelson, No. 1
Soft-ground etching and mezzotint, ca. 1891, 218 x 289 mm., Hardie 45 i/ii (after trial proofs). Fine, rich impression in brown, before all letters and before re-scraping, on textured wove paper with large, full margins. Short based his print on a rather slight drawing by Turner. He had gotten to just this point on the print (i/ii) when he proposed to consult the Turner painting for a better idea of Turner’s thoughts on the subject. The two were apparently quite different. The owner of the painting, however, refused to allow Short to copy it, and, after seeing it and making a few notes, Short abandoned the project. Twelve impressions only were printed, of which this is one. Later, Short returned to the plate and made some alterations based on his notes, making the print much lighter and adding the text, thus producing a second state. Comparison, however, seems to favor this dark, stormy one.
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$450.00 |  |
