A finely detailed 1844 watercolor painting of an extensive German landscape, with fascinating details including numerous tiny figures fishing and admiring the river and its cascades, a mountaintop castle, church, and countless trees. The sheet measures 15" by 19", the drawing inside squared lines 11 1/4" by 16 3/4". In the lower margin is a lot of writing, some of it tiny. At left we see "Rastadt den 2en Oktober 1844"; at right we see "A. F. Waizenegger lieut...

Kruseman Van Elten, American, 1829-1904, Etching, "Summer Morning", Image size 17 7/8 x 29 5/8 inches, printed by Wm.Pate & Co, NY, plate signed 1886

Oil on canvas of a clapboard cottage by a lake in spring, 18" by 24" with 3" frame, signed at lower left "J.C. FRANCES". I do not see a listing for the artist but he or she was obviously at the very least familiar with the paintings of Henry Pember Smith (1854-1907) and George W. Drew (1875-1968), who painted eerily similar scenes. This painting shows a gambrel roofed cottage with blooming pink blossomed trees and ducks----an idyllic spring idyll in New England or New York state perhaps...

Fred Farrell, European, 20th Century, Etching, "Village by a Lake", image size: 10 1/4x19 1/4 inches, pencil signed

Alphonse Legros, French, 1837-1911, "Le Matin sur la Rivière", etching, 7 x 7 inch on 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inch watermarked wove-type paper. Pencil signed in the lower right, plate initialed in the lower left. 1st state, C. 1898. Catalog: Bliss 593.

George O. Pop Hart, American, 1868-1933, "the Mule Car," Lithograph, image size 9 1/2 x 13 inches, 1928, pencil signed l.r. "Pop Hart".

Contemporary painting of a young woman in summery attire, teasing the viewer as she clings to her white wide-brimmed hat, 24" by 36", unframed, signed at right by contemporary American artist R. BAILEY. I do not see information on an artist by this name. The painting is reminiscent of classic 20th century pin-up illustration art. It is in excellent display condition.

Engraving, by the noted AEGIDIUS SADELER (1570-1629), possibly titled "Cottage Partly Built on Piles", from set of six landscapes, after a painting by the noted Flanders Golden Age artist, ROELANT SAVERY (1576-1639). Savery was an important Old Master of the Netherlands, and his original paintings sell for large sums at auction. Sadeler was a talented engraver, in demand by various artists who wished to have their original works translated into graphics...

Johannes Wierix, Flemish, 1549-1618, "The Crucifixion", "Pilate Washing His Hands". This is a rare 16th century engraving with an image printed on both sides of the sheet. One side has 'The Crucifixion' by Johannes Wierix, after Pieter van der Borcht, the other side has 'Pilate Washing His Hands' engraved by Pieter Huys after Pieter van der Borcht. Each image measures 4 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches, published c...

Sir Francis Seymour Haden, British, 1818-1910, etching, "The Two Sheep", image size: 4 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches, 1870, cat. Harrinton-177, cat. Schneiderman-132, state V/V, pencil signed.

David Muirhead Bone, Scottish, 1876-1953, "The Jetty, Gorleston," Etching, drypoint, image size 6 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches, 1934, pencil signed and plate signed l.r. and l.l. "Muirhead Bone".

Karl Dehmann, German, 1886-1974, "Woolworth Building Through the Arch," etching, 9 3/4 x 7 inches on 15 x 12 inch laid type paper. Printed in brown-toned ink. Pencil signed in the lower right. C. 1925.

An example of the etching originally dating to 1891, "Sitzender Mannlicher Akt" (Sitting Nude Man), by famous German artist KATHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945). The sheet measures 7" by 6" inside the mat, 16" by 15" as framed. This is a circa 1946-48 posthumous edition on cream wove paper, with the A.V.D. Becke blind stamp from Berlin Halensee impressed at lower right (which I have tried my best to photograph). Kollwitz was born in Konigsberg in the old East Prussia...

Luigi Kasimir, Austrian/American, 1881-1962, color etching, "Corvara (Dolomites)," image size 13 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches, 1916, inscribed in the plate "Corvara 11 Feb. 1916," pencil signed.

Carl M. Schultheiss, German/American, 1885-1961, engraving, "Goatherd", image size: 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, pencil signed. Presentation Print for the Society of Print Connoisseurs, Society blindstamp lower left. Provenance: Baldwin-Wallace College.

Executed actually by a listed California painter who apparently traveled extensively, JOHN W. NICOLL (1865-1943), this work, 9" by 13" as framed, is a painting of marine scenery of the isolated island archipelago of Bermuda in the sub-tropical Atlantic Ocean. It is signed at lower right by the artist and titled "Bermuda", and on the frame in old handwriting is written "Coral Rocks Bermuda"...

Diana Thorne, American, b. 1895, "Russians". An energetic image of a young woman walking her two Russian wolfhounds, this etching measures 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches, c. 1930, pencil signed below the image, titled on the lower margin. Diana Thorne was a well known early 20th century artist and illustrator, known especially for her etchings of dogs and illustrations of numerous children's books.

Leon Louis Dolice, American, 1892-1960, Etching with Aquatint, image size: 10 5/8 x 6 inches, pencil signed