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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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39. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) Hawk’s Brow and Seaford Head |
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Hawk’s Brow and Seaford Head
Other Images:
Drypoint and (separately) pencil drawing, 1939, 132 x 328 and 175 x 350 (sheet size), Hardie 381. A fine impression of the drypoint on tan laid paper with good margins, signed in pencil, together with the preliminary pencil drawing, in the same direction, on thin, wove paper laid down on board and also signed in pencil. This was, apparently, Short’s last print, done at the age of eighty-two. His hand seems to have lost none of its steadiness, indeed, of its skill. The work is simple and direct, establishing the monumental Sussex cliff and its surroundings, on a bright, sunny day, with the utmost economy. But one should compare carefully the drawing, clearly done on the spot, and the drypoint, the later result of careful consideration. The differences are small but significant: different figures in the center, one pointing to the left, and now including their shadows; touches of shadow on the beach to establish depth; the differentiation of intensity between the foreground and the distant hills. Together they explain the difference between a simple rendering of what is seen and the product of the instinct and knowledge of what will make an artistically successful print. For sale as a pair.
