Ernest D. Roth, Amer., (1879-1964), Ca' d'Oro Tempera

Ernest D. Roth, Amer., (1879-1964), Ca' d'Oro TemperaEtching, 1913, Ed. of perhaps 80, 9 1 16 x 11 7 8, signed, titled and dated in pencil, two small spots of foxing to lower margin, moderately toned within the mat opening, on a thick cream laid paper with full margins 11 9 16 x 14 5 16. A crisp, well inked impression of this landmark Venetian subject by Roth, featured on the cover of the important and highly reccomended catalogue: Reflections and Undercurrents: Ernest D Roth and Printmaking in Venice

exhibited at the City Art Museum

Frank Henry Mason was an English early 20th Century artist well known for his maritime paintings

the sophisticated use of tusche wash for the texture of both street and "Pushmobile"

before traveling around Europe

signed in the plate and in pencil

which is now Connecticut's National Park

mat line and stains in upper image

a fitting vision of France in the throes of the new political order of the Third Republic and burgeoning industrial revolution

this and the Harkness Tower print both echo the machine age aesthetic of the time

original gummed paper hinges to top corners

Hermansader was born in Reading

Oval stipple engraving