Doge's Palace (Venice)
DAVID YOUNG CAMERON
Scottish, (1865-1945)
Etching and drypoint, 1902, Rinder 326 (ii/II), edition unknown. 9 7/8 x 15 5/8 in. Signed in the plate, upper left corner. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression of this large, uncommon print. The paper is a thin Japan and the margins appear to be full and untrimmed. The condition is fine apart from slight light toning within an earlier mat opening. The Palace is famous for being the seat of power of the Venetian Republic for over one thousand years. It's a masterpiece of Venetian gothic architecture. Provenance: Craddock & Barnard, London. (their original mat).
$2,200

A Cat of Bubastis
DAVID YOUNG CAMERON
Scottish, (1865-1945)
Etching touched with drypoint, 1909, Rinder 426 (v/V), edition unknown. 5 5/8 x 4 7/16 in. Initialed in the plate upper right corner. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a cream laid paper. The margins are modest but this is probably the full sheet as printed. Fine condition. "The plate was worked on frequently as printing progressed." Bubastis, Egypt, was a center of worship for the feline goddess Bastet, sometimes called Bubastis after the city.
$400

Peacocks (Oblong Plate)
CHARLES M. & EDWARD J. DETMOLD
British, (1883-1908 & 1883-1957)
Etching, 1905, Dodgson 8, edition unknown. 3 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. Signed in pencil by Edward, lower right, and signed in pencil lower left, M.D. (by) E.J.D. This is a fine impression in fine condition with full margins. The paper is a cream-colored Japanese paper. This collaborative etching by the twins is the companion piece for Dodgson 10. Very few impressions were printed in 1905 and this one dates from the 1920s when Edward reprinted a small edition and signed both their names. (Maurice died in 1908). Their work was very much in demand at the time and even today the Detmold etchings have many admirers.
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Mrs. Mack and her Cat
FRANCIS DODD
British , (1874-1949)
Drypoint, 1927, Subsequent to the Schwabe list in PCQ, edition unknown. 13 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. Signed in the plate, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression with full margins. Fine condition apart from old paper hinges at the two top corners, verso. Ex-collection: GN or NG, not in Lugt. Dodd studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He was an official war artist during WWI and was a trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1928-1935. Dodd's brother-in-law was Muirhead Bone.
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The Family
PAUL DRURY
British, (1903-1987)
Etching, 1950-51, Garton 66 (iv/IV); edition 50. 5 5/8 x 7 in. Initialed in the plate and signed and dated in pencil. A fine, luminous impression printed on wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This plate was published in an edition of 50 for the Print Collectors Club, 1952.
$800

Sparks Wharf (London)
AILEEN MARY ELLIOTT
British, (1896-1966)
Etching and drypoint, 1925, small edition. 5 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil. This work was printed by the artist and is so inscribed. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine other than for old hinges at top, recto. Etched in the style and spirit of Whistler, this lovely print is mentioned in Guichard's book on British Etchers, page 37. Her well crafted etchings appeared in Fine Prints of the Year.
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La Berceuse
ETHEL GABAIN
British, (1883-1950)
Lithograph, 1915, Wright 169, (iii/III), edition 24 in this state; total of 51 impressions. 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. A fine impression in fine condition. Full margins.
$900

Toilette
ETHEL GABAIN
British, (1883-1950)
Lithograph, 1913, Wright 124, edition 24. 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. Signed on the stone and signed in pencil. A fine impression on light gray paper. Full margins. Fine condition.
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Un Joli Laid ('Chow')
ETHEL GABAIN
British, (1883-1950)
Lithograph, 1914, Wright 156, edition 24. 11 3/4 x 10 in. Signed in pencil. A fine impression in very good condition with full margins. Some rippling in the margins.
$900

Une Fille de Marie
ETHEL GABAIN
British, (1883-1950)
Lithograph, 1914, Wright 149, edition 24. 11 x 14 in. Signed in pencil. A fine impression in fine condition. Full margins. Other works by Gabain arecurrently available.
$900

Swan and Cygnets
WILLIAM GILES
British, (1872-1939)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1911, edition 50. 12 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. Signed in the block with his monogram and signed in pencil, lower right. This is a superb impression of this outstanding color print. The margins are full. The condition is fine. This work is illustrated as plate 2 in Malcolm Salaman's Masters of the Colour Print (1928).
$2,600

Castle on a Hill in Winter
WILLIAM GILES
British, (1872-1939)
Relief etching printed from multiple zinc plates, circa 1915-20, edition unknown. 12 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. Signed in pencil, lower right, and inscribed "18" in pencil, lower left. This is a fine impression of an uncommon print. The margins are substantial and the condition is quite good. There's a crease in the lower left margin not affecting the image and mild toning in the margins from an early mount. This exceptional color print was probably based on his sketching trips in Denmark, Germany or Sweden. Giles was one of the outstanding students of Frank Morley Fletcher and he excelled in making his sophisticated color prints. Frankly, it is rather difficult to spot the difference between Giles' early woodcuts and the more sophisticated metal relief etchings. The best discussion of his work to date is Malcolm Salaman's 1928 volume, Masters of the Colour Print IV, published by the Studio, London.
$1,800

The Haunt of the Jay
WILLIAM GILES
British, (1872-1939)
Woodcut printed in colors with additional use of zinc relief plates, undated but probably about 1930, edition unknown but probably only 30 impressions. 11 1/2 x 16 5/8 in. Signed in the image with the artist's monogram. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression of this very rare print. The margins are wide and the condition is very good overall. There's faint mottling or foxing in the margins but this is minor. This large work is an extraordinary example of the artist's design sense as well as his creativity as a color printmaker. "His first experiments using zinc plates for relief printing date from 1902 and by 1920 he had developed a novel technique using multiple zinc plates coated with shellac. Each zinc plate was inked to print a single colour from the raised areas of its etched surface and no 'key block' was used."(MC, London, 2011) This large work rarely appears on the market and the colors are exceptionally fresh and vibrant.
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The Last Glow, Central Corsica
WILLIAM GILES
British, (1872-1939)
Zinc plate relief print printed with oil pigments, 1915, edition unknown but perhaps 100. 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression of this rare work. The margins are full and the condition is fine. According to information provided on the British Museum's website, the register records that this was printed from eight relief blocks (plates?), in wash color using volatile oil. An impression of this print was exhibited at the 11th exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society held in the Royal Academy as no. 467. The V & A Museum has several Giles prints including photos of some of his metal relief plates used in making a certain image.
$2,800

Convolvulus
WILLIAM GREENGRASS
British, (1896-1970)
Linocut printed in colors, 1937, edition 30. 9 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. Unsigned. This is a fine impression printed on thin Japanese paper. The margins are full. The condition is excellent. Greengrass enrolled at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in 1930 and he studied with Claude Flight. He was a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. This print is illustrated on page 173 in Rhythms of Modern Life, British Prints 1914-1939 (2008) by Cliff Ackley, et al.
$4,500

Palace Court
FREDERICK L. GRIGGS
British, (1876-1938)
Etching, 1933, Comstock 49 (iii/III), edition 75. 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on white laid paper. The margins are trimmed by the artist around the platemark with a little more on the bottom to accommodate the signature. The condition is fine. A total of five impressions exist of the first two states. According to Griggs, this was an imaginary scene. "It is a kind of essay on East Anglian building - of mediaeval kinds..."
$1,850

Cockayne
FREDERICK L. GRIGGS
British, (1876-1938)
Etching, 1936-1937, Comstock 55 (iv/VI); thirty impressions in this state. 8 1/16 x 10 3/4 in. Initialed in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil and below to the left, "4th." This is a superb, luminous impression with wide margins. The condition is excellent. This distinctive plate depicts old London. The Boston Public Library owns a large pen and ink drawing (1912) of the subject, made as an illustration for "Shakespeare's England." The total edition from this plate is unknown.
$2,000

The Cross Hands
FREDERICK L. GRIGGS
British, (1876-1938)
Etching, 1935, Comstock 52 (iv/VI), one of three proofs in this state. 6 3/4 x 9 3/16 in. Signed and dated in the stone, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression trimmed along the platemark on three sides and with space along the bottom where the pencil signature is found. (This was done by the artist.) The condition is excellent. This is a superb pure landscape by Griggs and this is also a somewhat rare print. The total edition recorded by Comstock is at least twenty-one but the number of printings of the third state is "unrecorded."
$1,850

Amstelodamum, No.1
SEYMOUR HADEN
British, (1818-1910)
Etching, 1863, Schneidermann 41A, (v/VI), exact edition unknown. 4 x 4 5/8 in. Signed in the plate and in pencil. A fine impression of this scarce print. 1/2 margins all around. A small, inconspicuous thin spot.
$575

Thomas Haden of Derby
SEYMOUR HADEN
British, (1818-1910)
Etching, 1864, Schneiderman 53 (v/V); the published state. 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. Signed in the plate and signed in pencil. A very good impression in good condition. Wide margins. Trace of old adhesive along sheet edges, verso. Subtle stains in margins, recto. Uncommon. The print is after the painting "Edwin the Minstrel" by Joseph Wright of Derby.
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