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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14. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after Peter De Wint (1784-1849) The Snow Drift |
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The Snow Drift
Soft-ground etching and mezzotint, 1904, 165 x 372 mm., Hardie 83 ii/ii. Fine impression on chine-appliqué, trimmed just on the platemark, but with the letters and the white plate margin around the image; tiny surface losses in the plate margin, not affecting the image. One is familiar with the rich blacks produced by mezzotint technique, but perhaps only a snow scene makes one aware of the effectiveness of the whites, modeled here by pale grays. The print is after a watercolor in the Victoria and Albert Museum, now, apparently deteriorated due to time and unstable pigments. The image here, in black and white, is still beautiful. Rather inexplicably, not pencil signed.
