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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6. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) Solway Fishers, No. 2 |
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Solway Fishers, No. 2
Etching and mezzotint, 1893, 198 x 273 mm., Hardie 113 ii/ii. Superb impression in brown ink on vellum with good margins and signed in pencil; a few light wrinkles at the left and old paper verso from a previous mounting. Short fully understood the beauty of vellum (fine parchment) proofs but rarely made them because of his fear of their being attacked by mold in the damp, country houses in which they would be hung. Solway, No. 1 was an etching and the mezzotint copied it in reverse, thus restoring the correct topographical view. The edition was 100, but the vellum proofs (if there were more than one) may have been apart from the edition. The Solway Firth is an inlet of the Irish Sea on the border of Scotland and England and the fishing, according to the image, was done largely with nets. One should note the finesse of the mezzotint technique in delineating the various types of clouds.
