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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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18. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) Lucerne (Moonlight on a River) |
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Lucerne (Moonlight on a River)
Mezzotint, 1896, 214 x 284 mm., Hardie 42 published state. Fine impression in brown on chine-appliqué with large, full margins, signed in pencil and with the blindstamp of Robert Dunthorne, the publisher. The subject is taken from a slight sketch by Turner, intended for the Liber Studiorum but never engraved before Short did it. The original drawing is in the Vaughan Bequest in the National Gallery, London. Lucerne, with its old tower and bridge and Mount Pilatus is still one of the most picturesque of Swiss cities. Short’s print, in pure mezzotint with no prior etching, makes the sketchiness of the original drawing into a virtue, producing an impressionistic moonlit scene without any but the most necessary detail.
