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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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3. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) The Head of Langston Harbour |
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The Head of Langston Harbour
Etching, 1908, 189 x 272 mm., Hardie 340. Very fine impression with lightly varied plate tone on laid paper with good margins, signed in pencil. Langston Harbour is on the south coast of England, just to the east of Portsmouth. Short’s take on it is direct and simple, accentuating and shading the water that runs up to the base of the old mill and, to add a small human element, including two men who lean on a railing outside the Royal Oak Inn. The rest is sky and water with a line of distant landscape, a boat and a single bird in flight to balance the composition.
