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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29. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) Stonehenge at Daybreak |
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Stonehenge at Daybreak
Mezzotint, 1897, 215 x 283 mm., Hardie 26 iii/iii. Fine, rich impression in dark brown in on textured wove paper with large, full margins, signed in pencil. The image is based on a drawing by Turner intended for the Liber Studiorum. There was a prior mezzotint of the work, apparently by Charles Turner, but it was never published. Short captures the full dramatic quality of the scene, with the dim lighting on the shepherds and their flock, the speeding coach that divides the scene, and the shapes of Stonhenge silhouetted against the brilliance of a breaking dawn in a cloud filled sky.
