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7 7/8" x
4 5/8" Original sepia dry-point miniature etching on japon/pressed on laid paper. Partial artist
monogram discernable at bottom/left of center. From the 13 volume set of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales". ( Click author for overview ) Publisher : Houghton,
Mifflin & Co./Boston. Printer : Riverside Press/ Cambridge. According to "Hawthorne In Salem" online, "Wayside"
was the only home Hawthorne ever owned. Hawthorne, Thoreau and Emerson, the leading exponents of the Transendentalist Movement,
are all three buried in the famous "Sleepy Hollow" ceme-tery, near "Wayside". Excellent condition. Includes copy of dated
Title page and artist bio. VERY RARE MINIATURE ( IMAGE : 1 7/8" X 2 3/4" )
$675.00
"On the Concord
River" 1883 Robert Swain Gifford
7 7/8" x 4 1/2" Original sepia drypoint miniature etching on japon/ pressed on laid paper,
from the 13 volume set of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales". ( Click author for overview ) Artist's monogram "R.S.G." signed in plate (lower/right) Etching was an insert
supplement illustration for the Haw-thorne tale "Feathertop : A Moralized Legend". Publisher : Houghton, Mifflin Co./Boston.
Printer: Riverside Press/ Cambridge. Excellent condition. Includes copy of dated Title page and artist bio. RARE MINIATURE ( IMAGE :
2 5/8" x 3" ) $275.00
"Horseshoe Fall, Niagara; En-trance to the Cavern, on the (Canadian) Side" 1844 Robert Sands after Thomas Allom after a sketch by Col. Cock-burn 10 1/4" x 7"
line engraving. From Rev. G.N. Wright's "People's Gallery of Engravings" 1844-1846. Publisher : Fisher, Son & Co./Lon-don.
(Print pub. & date printed below title). Excellent condition; archivally restored. Includes original 5 page narrative and
artist bios. $275.00
SOLD
"Mill Near the Hague", c.1840
after W. Clarkson
Stanfield
8 3/4"
x 5 5/8" Line engraving.
Line engraving from "...Die
Reformatoren" by Ludwig Wurkert. Pub-lished and printed in German & English by A.H. Payne/ Leipzig & Dresden,
as printed below title. Excellent condition; archivally restored. In-cludes copy of Title page and artist bios.
$275.00
"View
from a Farmhouse" 1880
11" x 7 1/8"
Original drypoint sepia etching on cream wove paper. Signed and dated in plate lower/left. Excellent condition.
Includes artist bio. $325.00
Henry John Boddington
8" x 5 3/8"
mezzotint. Excellent condition; archivally restored. Includes artist bios.
$325.00
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