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"...

Hieronymus Wierix, Flemish, 1553-1619, "Moses and the Israelites Beside the Red Sea", "Moses Leading the Israelites out of Egypt". A rare early engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Pieter van der Borcht, printed with an image on both sides of the sheet. Each image measures 4 1/2 x 2 7/ 8 inches, 1583, a good impression on a very early laid type paper, published by 16th century book printer and publisher Christophe Plantin...

Stephen Gooden Open Stephen Gooden configuration options 1892-1955 British This is an original engraving by British artist Stephen F. Gooden. The title is "Diana", this engraving was created and printed in 1940. The image measures 5 1/2X5 1/2 inches. This engraving is pencil signed and dated lower right, It is editioned as 96/110. This print was the presentation plate for the Print Club of Rochester, N.Y. Printed on a medium weight wove type paper.

A circa 1880 American painting on canvas of a white clapboard house on a farm or rural land, the structure surrounded by bare trees, white fences and outbuildings, a sitting dog strategically placed at center staring directly at the viewer. The work measures 18" by 22" and 22" by 25" framed...

At first glance this appears to be a 17th century Dutch landscape oil on panel by someone like Ruisdael, Hobbema, Cuyp, Van Goyen, or other famous artists of that time and place. Closer examination reveals that this is actually a late 20th century work in that style, signed at lower right by artist J M GRISWOLD. I do not see information on the artist but he or she was clearly familiar with 17th century Dutch art...

Federico Castellon, Spanish-American, 1914-1971, "By the Arks". This 1941 lithograph measures 9 x 11 7/8 inches, pencil signed, edition of 250, published by Associated American Artists, NY. Primarily a self-taught artist who was heavily influenced by Dali, Picasso and Rouault. At 18, Castellon had his first solo show with the help of his mentor, Diego Rivera, who recognized the young man's talent...

This 1927 etching by the American artist Roland Clark measures 7 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches, pencil signed and titled. Roland Clark studied at The Art Students League with J. Carroll Beckwith in New York. An avid outdoorsman he combined his love of the outdoors into his many paintings and etchings. Selected to do the 1938 Federal Duck Stamp Design, he also wrote and illustrated books about his hunting experiences.

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...

A Fine Watercolor by the Listed Artist, Ignatz Sahula-Dycke (1900-82). Measures about 17 1/2" by 14 1/2" matte opening, overall about 25" by 22". Signed lower right. Sahula-Dycke has written something above his signature that I can not read, below his signature is lightly written "Phoenix 1940 Arizona".

Charcoal drawing of two nude women bathing, 6 1/4" by 8 7/8" inside the mat, 13 1/2" by 15 1/2" framed, signed a lower right center "Mayrshofer Max". This is a work by the German artist MAX MAYRSHOFER (1875-1950), likely created around the time of World War I. Mayrshofer, the son of a baker, was born in Munich and it is with that Bavarian city that he is closely associated...

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.

An old watercolor painting of the Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy, signed at lower left by the noted artist VITTORE ZANETTI-ZILLA (1869-1946). Measurements are 9 1/2" by 13 1/4" (14 3/4" by 18 1/2" as framed). The artist studied in Venice and in his mid twenties traveled through Europe, which had an effect on his style. He exhibited at Munich in 1893 and in Buenos Aires in 1910. After World War I, the artist remained in Milano. Solo exhibitions of his work took place in 1918 and 1920...

Thomas B. Lawson, American, 1808-1888, "Daniel Webster with bust of Washington". A very fine original engraving of Daniel Webster, after the painting by Thomas B. Lawson, image size 26 1/2 x 18 inches, 1852, engraved and printed by C. E. Wagstaff and Jos. Andrews, in what appears to be the original frame...

Warren Davis, American, 1865-1928, "Seated Nymph," Etching, image size 8 x 5 3/4 inches, pencil signed l.r. "Warren Davis" on wove paper. Davis studied at the Art Students League in New York and became known for his etchings of idealized female figures. Many were used on the covers of Vanity Fair and Life magazines. Later in his career Davis exhibited in Europe and the United States including the Pennsylvania Academy and the Salmagundi Club.

Nicolas Mignard, French, 1606-1668, "Odysseus Escaping Polyphemus". Etching by Nicolas Mignard after the frescoes of Annibale Carracci depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey. Plate size 10 1/4 x 17 3/4, published by Pierre Mariette in 1637, with lettering in Latin below the image. Printed on a very early watermarked laid type paper.

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...

Albert W. Barker, American, 1874-1947, Lithograph, "The Quarry No. 2", Edition of 50, image size: 11X8 3/4 inches, pencil signed

Albert W. Barker, American, 1874-1947, lithograph, "Rising Mist, Martha's Vineyard," image size 11 x 7 3/8 inches, 1927, Stone No. 14, pencil signed and numbered 44/50.

Lucien Grand-Gerard, French, 20th Century, Etching, "Young Girl with Flowers", image size 11 1/2X9", pencil signed

This Warren Davis etching measures 7 7/8 x 6 inches, pencil signed, label from Kleemann-Thorman Galleries, New York included, c.1928. This delicately rendered etching is a great example of Davis's images of graceful female nudes, many of which were used for Vanity Fair and Life magazines in the very early 1900s.

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.

William Lee Hankey, British, 1869-1952, "Evening," etching, image size 9 x 9 7/8 inches on 10 7/8 x 11 7/8 wove-type paper C 1919. Pencil signed. Artist blindstamp, plate initialed in the lower right.

Sir Francis Seymour Haden, British, 1818-1910, "Shere Mill Pond No. II". This is a very fine early state etching, image size 7 x 13 1/8 inches, 1860, state VI/IX, cat: Schneiderman-37, plate signed and dated. Sir Francis Seymour Haden was one of the most important British etchers of the 19th century, along with his brother in law, James Whistler. In addition to being a highly regarded artist, he was a successful surgeon, accomplished author and dedicated angler. He was a founder and the first pr...

A very attractive floral still life, 30" by 24" (37" by 31" framed), quite light and airy with white predominating, signed at lower right by by the hand of noted California-born artist PAUL MATHENIA (1946-). This is a beautifully worked oil on canvas painting of flowers in a table top vase, signed at lower right with the artist's typical signature. Mathenia was born in Bakersfield, California and showed early artistic talent as a youngster. He received art instruction at various venues in Southe...

Albert W. Barker, American, 1874-1947, "Beyond Paul Point," Lithograph, image size 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches, 1930, edition of 125, initialed and dated within the plate, pencil signed and editioned.

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. This print has been tightly trimmed to...

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.

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.

Original watercolor on paper, 6" by 10" (12" by 16" as framed), signed at lower right "William J. Schaldach, Jr." and inscribed at left "To Nellie, with love, from Billy". This could be an oriole but I am not an ornithologist. This is a very clean work and it appears not to have been opened since the 1960's or 1970's. A few tiny black spots visible in some photos are on the glass and not the art itself. The artist is a well recognized painter and printmaker of wildlife and sporting art, incl...

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. After early art education in Berlin,...

Arthur R. Middleton Todd, British, 1891-1966, "Strolling Players", etching, 6 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches on 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 wove type paper. Pencil and plate signed in bottom right. Featured in Fine Prints of the Year in 1927.

David Y. Cameron 1865-1945 British This is an original etching by British artist David Y. Cameron. The title is: Ayr, Bremen, Vienna. It was created and printed in 1889. The image is pencil signed in pencil by the artist and the image measures 6 11/16X11 3/4 inches.

Albert W. Barker, American, 1874-1947, Lithograph, "Grassland", image size: 11 1/8x8 12/16", pencil signed

Really well executed watercolor of a classic American town's streets and buildings, as seen from a bird's eye view on a gray, snowy winter day, 14" by 11 1/2" inside the present mat, unframed, signed at lower left by artist Warren Blackwell, and dated there 1948. It is surprising that there seems to be no information available on the artist, as his handling of the medium is so skilled and advanced. The scene is very American, and reminiscent of the American Scene art of the 1930's and early 19...

Hermine David, French, 1886-1971, Drypoint etching, "Le Zoo de Vincennes", image size 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches, 1946, pencil signed and numbered 51/110, published by the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français.

John Edward Costigan, American, 1888-1972, Etching, "Rosella and Danny", image size: 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches, 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".

A fine color soft-ground etching and aquatint by the noted, prolific Czech master artist TAVIK FRANTISEK SIMON (1877-1942), featuring the famous and much-loved "bouquiniste" bookstalls along the Seine in Paris. The sheet measures 17 3/4" by 15 1/2" and 19 1/2" by 17 1/4" very nicely framed back in the 1950's or so in Chicago at Anderson Galleries (label on backing). The print is signed in pencil at lower right by the artist and numbered 48 in the lower left margin. Created in the year 1907 (a...

Small English oil on board landscape painting in period frame by E Locht and dated 18?8. Colors are vibrant. In excellent antique condition, it measure including frame 14.5ʺ wide × 11ʺ high

William Lee Hankey, European, 1869-1952, etching, "Trincket Box", image size: 4 5/8 6 3/8 inches, pencil signed, blind stamp.

Tavik F. Simon, Czech, "From the Latin Quarter". This 1907 etching and aquatint by Tavik F. Simon measures 12 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches, pencil signed, numbered "81", edition of 150, cat: Novak-69, G. Petit publisher's blindstamp on l.l. T.F.Simon was born in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and traveled extensively throughout Europe, as well as Asia and the U.S. He lived in Paris from 1905-1913, then returned to Prague to teach at the Academy of F...

Albert W. Barker, American, 1874-1947, "Upper Barn, Winter," etching, 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches on 14 x 11 1/2 inch watermarked wove type paper. C. 1932. Initialed and dated on stone in the lower right, pencil signed in the lower right. Edition of 55. Catalog: Barker 122. The dark outline of the barn, with its modernistic texture and shadows, contrasts with the luminous winter sky. One of Barker's best prints.

Lawrence Nelson Wilbur, American, 1897-1988, "Peck's Slip- N.Y.C." Etching, image size 6 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches, 1936, edition of 65 proofs, pencil signed and titled "Lawrence Nelson Wilbur" l.r. and "Peck's Slip-NYC" l.l., publishers blindstamp l.r.

Peter Moran, American, 1842-1914, "Noonday". A finely detailed original etching by Peter Moran, this image measures 7 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches, 1887, state II/III, cat: Wright- 94, with the separate frog remarque lower left, pencil signed, framed. Peter Moran was one of the foremost artists of the American etching revival of the late 19th century. He was known for his images of cows and farm animals, as well as his atmospheric scenes of the American Southwest.

William Lee Hankey, 1869-1952 British, Mother and Child, etching/drypoint, image size 7 3/4X6 inches, pencil signed and artists blindstamp

PAIR of drawings, one in pencil, consisting of two sketches of apparently the same figure, from varying angles (11 1/2" by 8 1/4"), the other in red chalk, of a nude model (15 1/2" by 11 3/4"). Both are signed by noted California artist BEN CARRE (1883-1978) and are identically framed (23 1/2" by 19 1/2"). Carre was born in Paris and was an early set painter for the Paris Opera, Comedie Francaise, and Covent Garden. He became an early art director for the Gaumont Film Studios, painting trompl...

Tavik F. Simon, Czechoslovakian, 1877-1942, "Puente Nuevo at Rondo- Spain". This is a remarkable original etching by Czechoslovakian artist T. F. Simon, depicting the stunning architecture of the Puente Nuevo bridge in Ronda, Spain. The image size is 13 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches, published in 1913 in an edition of 150, cat: Novak-206, nunmbered in pencil with the artist's stamp lower left, pencil signed lower right. The Puente Nuevo was designed by architect Jose Martin de Aldehuela, and was built over...

Robert Fulton Logan, Canadian, 1889-1959, drypoint etching, Factory Scene, image size 13 x 8 3/4 inches, pencil signed and numbered 61/100.

Oil on canvas, 30" by 25" and 1 1/4" wide frame, unsigned, the subject two ladies and a cradled baby, in a traditional European interior of the nineteenth century. Due to the stretcher and canvas weave, I believe this is actually a work by an American artist, who skillfully copied a master work from Europe (probably Italian, or, Tyrol area/South German?). The painting would ideally be acquired by a restorer who can clean the painting and repair the large "L" shaped tear at lower left and a few...

This etching with aquatint by the German artist, Johann Gottlieb Theophilus Amadeus Prestel, measures 12 5/8 x 18 1/2 inches, 1784, in two colors on green paper, plate signed and dated, after Parmigianino, artist info on backing, thread margins all around.

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

Nicolas Mignard, French, 1606-1668, "Odysseus and Hermes Before Circe". Etching by Nicolas Mignard after the frescoes of Annibale Carracci depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey. Plate size 10 1/4 x 17 3/4, published by Pierre Mariette in 1637, with lettering in Latin below the image. Printed on a very early watermarked laid type paper.

Koitsu Tsuchiya, oban tate-e, ¡°Sunset at Mt. Futara¡±, slightly toned and creased, fine impression and color.

Friedrich (Fritz) Heubner, 1896-1974, German, drypoint etching, "Portrait of a Young Woman ("Madchenkopf"), image size 12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches, pencil signed

Watercolor on painting of Pirates Alley in the famous French Quarter of New Orleans, 14 1/4" by 5 1/4", 23" by 9 1/2" framed behind non-glare glass, signed at lower left by the well-known New Orleans artist ROBERT M. RUCKER (1932-2001). Rucker is recognized for his contributions to art of New Orleans, the lower Mississippi River valley, Louisiana, and the Old South. Works are included in the Louisiana State Museum and the Historic New Orleans Collection, and hundreds of private collections aro...

Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand, French, 1863-1951, "Le Mee". This is a very fine original etching with beautiful plate tone by French artist Louis Legrand. The image size is 5 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches, published in 1911 in an edition of 50 impressions, cat: Arwas- 426, state II/II, pencil signed.

Arthur Heintzelman, American, 1891-1965, etching, "Cafe Montmartrois", BPL 114, plate destroyed, Characters from French art culture of 1925; Scene features Heintzelman, left, bending over table, the Parisian model, Kiki who appears in Planche aux Cinq Croquis. To her right, Fredie, subject in Fredie du Cafe "Le Lapin Agile" and of Le Poete regarded by Heintzelman as the last of the great Montartre singers, Young man with the guitar is Fredie's son.

Utagawa Yoshitsuya, Japanese, 1822-1866, "Senjubo Aiming at Harunaga-Ko". This is a an original color woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitsuya from his series '54 Battle Stories of Hideyoshi". The image size is 12 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches, 1864, lifetime impression, framed. Hideyoshi was a 16th century Samurai warrior in the who rose through the ranks of the army to become general, leading the forces of Japan in several brutal conflicts. In the centuries since his death, Hideyoshi has become an almost my...

**PAIR** color offset prints after two Southwest landscape paintings by the noted artist ED MELL (1942-), each laid on artboard and measuring 24" by 36". They were found in brown metal frames with no mat; frames available with the prints at no extra charge should the buyer want them. The prints show slight evidence of the edges perhaps being slightly trimmed, and there are some light scratches and small losses at extreme edges on one print as shown. The other has a faint water stain at lower ...

Oil on canvas landscape of a busy scene I believe to be along the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia, 13" by 25" as framed in narrow blond ash, signed at lower right by Torpedo Art Center artist ANNE B. LANDRY. Some internet research enabled me to identify the artist. Landry is a New Orleans native and graduate of Newcomb Art School at Tulane there, who after some time in the corporate world in New York elected to move to the Washington, D.C. area, where she is a juried artist in the Torped...