THE short SHOW
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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34. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) A Yorkshire Dell or The Heron’s Pool |
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A Yorkshire Dell or The Heron’s Pool
Soft-ground etching and mezzotint, 1905, 278 x 386 mm., Hardie 85 only mezzotint state. Very fine, rich impression on chine-appliqué with good, probably full, margins, signed in pencil. The print is based on a Turner watercolor rather than on a drawing and, according to Hardie, the scene is probably in Scotland rather than Yorkshire. One should note Short’s ability to vary the “focus,” alternating the precision we have come to expect in mezzotint with hazier, more impressionistic effects, precisely as Turner did in painting. It is certainly among the most sheerly beautiful mezzotints done by anyone after Turner.
