THREE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, OF THE PERIOD, MATTED LARGE FORMAT PROOFS OF VARIOUS PRINTS,19th/20th Century. Publishers are noted below. Three matted, of the period, prints, including a photogravure after English painter Rudolf Blind, entitled Saints & Sinners, signed in pencil lower left. No imprint appears, but issue date was 1885. Proof before letters. On mounted chine colle as issued. 25 7/8" high x 36 1/16" wide. The second engraving, The Picnic on the Fourth of July, after Lilly Martin Spencer, published H. Peter & P & J Levy, New York, 1866. Marked Proof. 27 3/8" high x 33 1/2" wide. With a third, a circa 1907, proof before title, View of Doges Palace, Venice, after G. Caroll. Published Taber Printing Co. 24 5/8" high x 35 3/8" wide. (3 total).
Memo #2538. Estimate $200-300
From the Collection of the Old Print Gallery, Washington, DC.
The Picnic on the Fourth of July has three old repairs to bottom margin. None extend into the image.