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JOHN HENRY TWACHTMAN
Harbor with Barges
.
Etching, 1879-80. 11x169 mm; 4
7
/
8
x6
3
/
4
inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). One of
18 posthumous impressions, from a total edition of 29 recorded impressions in both states,
lifetime and posthumous. Initialed “JHT per AT” by the artist’s son Alden Twachtman in
pencil, lower right. A superb impression of this very scarce etching.
According to Baskett,“The harbor depicted was probably either along the Hudson River
in NewYork City or New Jersey. Lisa Peters has identified the waterfront of Jersey City
in a number of works by Twachtman from this period (Peters,
John Henry Twachtman
, San
Diego Museum of Art, circa 1979, figure 78). Baskett 2.
[1,000/1,500]
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JULIAN ALDEN WEIR
Portrait of Dr. Robert F. Weir
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Drypoint on antique, cream laid paper, 1891. 234x160 mm; 9
1
/
4
x6
1
/
4
inches, full margins.
A superb impression of this extremely scarce print.
[1,000/1,500]
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CHILDE HASSAM
The Billboards, NewYork
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Etching and drypoint, 1896. 120x160 mm; 4
5
/
8
x6
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Signed with the
artist’s cypher and inscribed “imp” in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this
scarce, early etching, with crisp plate edges.
This is one of Hassam’s earliest New York etchings, depicting a scene on Broadway
between 55th and 56th Streets. Clayton/Cortissoz 87.
[3,000/5,000]
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