Description

Description: This wonderfully worked etching achieves a wide range of shadow, texture and emotion. The portrait is of an unidentified man with a crumpled hat and a somewhat defiant expression.

Inscribed, signed twice and dated in graphite at bottom margin. Platemark: 10″ x 7″ on a sheet of deckle-edge paper measuring: 11 1/2″ x 8″. Item #PR00423

There does not seem to be much biographical information about the artist, other than his 1870 birthdate. He was a relatively prolific etcher and illustrator of portraits of notable people, as well as, the unnamed.

Condition: Light toning around perimeter, remnants of two pieces of hinging tape on verso, otherwise good condition.