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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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25. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) Portrait of Two Gentlemen |
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Portrait of Two Gentlemen
Mezzotint, 1905, 495 x 367 mm., Hardie 86 trial proof. Superb proof impression, with all the glow of the earliest mezzotint impressions, on fine wove paper with small but full margins, pinholes for drying in the margins, signed and inscribed in pencil. It was natural that Short should test his abilities against the great eighteenth-century portrait mezzotinters. Reynolds’ painting is in the Tate Gallery and, apparently, had never been engraved previously. The Reverend Mr. Huddesford is at the left, his friend, Mr. Bampfylde, holding a cello, at the right. And they are looking at prints, a nice subject combination of music and art. The painting dates from ca. 1778. Short’s interpretation of it could not be called anything less than a triumph.
