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After the Storm [pencil] Just Published. Original Etching by John G. Mathieson. (Limited Edition)
John G Mathieson [signed in pencil.]
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist. 300 x 200mm (11¾ x 8"), with wide margins. In original mount with printed label with publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
The edge of a wood, with fallen trees. John George Mathieson, a Scottish painter and etcher of landscapes who lived and worked in Stirling, exhibiting between 1918 and 1940.
[Ref: 49226] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Pocock Fig Tree, Oxford, as it Appeared before the Fire in 1809.
Drawn & Eng.d by J. & H. S. Stoner for the Port Folio.
Pub.d by Sherwood & Co. July 1. 1824.
Engraving. Plate: 150 x 100mm (6 x 4'') large margins.
A view of the ancient fig tree which once grew in Oxford. It was brought from Syria in 1648 by the naturalist Edward Pocock and planted in Oxford. The plant is covered in lead to protect the trunk and branches from the weather. In 1806 there was a fire which nearly destroyed the tree, the lead was also stolen so the tree started to decay.
[Ref: 49311] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Cipressi Toscani [pencil].
Carl Strauss [pencil].
[n.d., c.1920.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist. 340 x 275mm (13½ x 10¾") very large margins. Some spotting in margins.
A copse of Tuscan cypress trees in an Italian landscape. Carl Sumner Strauss was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1873, but spent most of his working life in Europe. In 1931 he was commissioned to provide 20 etchings from Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''The Marble Faun'' for the Limited Editions Club. He died at Laax, Switzerland in 1957 . Smithsonian American Art Museum 1935.13.315.
[Ref: 49169] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
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