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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
Polperro from the Cliffs (Sketch)
Etching, 1888, 297 x 354 mm., Hardie 220 proof. A fine impression with light plate tone on laid paper with full margins, signed in pencil. According to Hardie, only two or three impressions were pulled of the plate, so the work is of considerable rarity. Labeled a "sketch," it is an extensive and rather detailed view of the Cornish town, but the plate left unfinished. Despite that, Short’s ability to create a profound depth of field with the greatest economy of line, while also developing a flat geometrical pattern on the plate, is continually impressive. Many of his colleagues could do one or the other, but rarely both simultaneously.