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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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4. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945) after J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) Derwentwater (View of a Lake) |
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Derwentwater (View of a Lake)
Etching, soft-ground and mezzotint, 1896, 205 x 280 mm., Hardie 39 published state. Very fine impression in brown ink on strong wove paper with full margins, signed in pencil. The plate is after one of the unpublished drawings in Turner’s Liber Studiorum, then in the possession of Henry Vaughan, Esq., now in the Vaughan Bequest in the National Gallery, London. Short’s superb mezzotint technique clearly and subtly delineates the mist rising from the water, and the alternately heavily- and lightly-worked areas in the foreground establish a play of light that ultimately lets us focus on the two figures seated on the hill. Derwentwater is one of the most beautiful lakes in the Lake District in Cumberland in northwest England.
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