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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
Per Horse-Power Per Hour, Whitby Harbour
Mezzotint, 1887, 137 x 214 mm., Hardie 105 proof on vellum, ex collection Axel Haig.
A black, smeary, proof impression on vellum, apart from the edition of 50, signed in pencil and dedicated to the etcher Axel Haig; some old glue stains in the large margins and the vellum, as usual, slightly rippled. The vellum surface makes this impressionistic image even more so and the proof is clearly experimental in nature, the scene dissolving into near abstract patterns of black and gray. “The title,” wrote Short, “is a comment on the amount of coal being wasted by the clouds of smoke coming out of the funnel…I think I had been challenged by old engineering friends to make a picture with this title. But it was the form and tone that interested me.”
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