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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9. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after Sir Alfred East (1849-1913) In the Cotswolds |
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In the Cotswolds
Soft-ground etching and mezzotint, 1908, 210 x 260 mm., Hardie 90. A fine impression in black-brown ink on chine-appliqué with full margins, signed in pencil; some fox marks in the margins of the support sheet. The print is after an oil painting, then in the possession of the King of Italy. East was a popular and respected painter and a more than merely competent etcher, but a mezzotint like this was beyond his print-making abilities. Short does far more than simply reproducing a painting; he creates an individual print whose viability does not depend in the least on its source. The Cotswolds, called “the heart of England,” are a range of hills, mostly in Gloucestershire, noted for their natural beauty and the attractive small towns that dot them.
