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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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38. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after Peter De Wint (1784-1849) A Woody Landscape |
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A Woody Landscape
Etching and mezzotint, 1908, 440 x 667 mm., Hardie 91. A fine impression of this very large plate (one of the largest Short did) in brown-black ink on chine-appliqué with large margins, signed in pencil from the edition of 100. The work is after an oil paintng by De Wint in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which also owns Short’s original copper plate of this print. The etched line is more clearly evident here than in most of Short’s mezzotints, where it is simply a working guide to the design. Here, at least in the foreground, etching is used to define plant forms, tree branches and fissures in the ground while the mezzotint establishes tonal values. It gives a more formal, less spontaneous look to the print, which, nevertheless, is a considerable achievement. The location of the scene is now believed to be above Cliveden on the Thames in Buckinghamshire.
