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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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11. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) Ehrenbreitstein to Coblenz, No. 2 |
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Ehrenbreitstein to Coblenz, No. 2
Soft-ground etching and mezzotint, 1913, 274 x 397 mm., Hardie 95.
Very fine impression on chine-appliqué with large, full margins, signed in pencil. Twenty-three years after his first approach, Short made a second print of the same Turner watercolor, larger, more detailed and in mezzotint rather than aquatint. Though clearly the same subject, the two could not be more different, the first embodying a spontaneous response to a vision, the second more carefully balancing the effects and including many details passed over in the first. Which to prefer is a matter of taste, but No. 2 uses all the available subtleties of mezzotint technique to gradate the intensities of shadows and reflections and is a magnificent translation of Turner’s watercolor.
