WHITBY HARBOR Village Twilight Fishing Boats Sails

Description: Print Specifics: Type of print: Original Etching Year of printing: not indicated in the print, actual: 1883 Etched by: Richeton - Original artist: David Law. Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, Publishers, New York Signature: Signed in plate (i.e. the artist/etcher scratched his signature into the original copper printing plate) Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 11.5 x 16.5 inches (29 x 42 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.Image dimensions: 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavy - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin). Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. 3. Due to its dimensions, the etching will be mailed rolled in a sturdy shipping tube. Original Narrative: Some portion of the little town of Whitby*, in Yorkshire, from which we get or used to get Whitby jet, may be recognized in the picture by one acquainted with the place; but any of the small places on the Humber, or even on the southern river Severn, might have furnished the motive for the work. The dark sails of the fishing-boats, the gleaming water with their black reflections in it, the twilight sky with its heavy clouds cut up by patches and lines of light, are the true interest of the scene. The black mass of shapeless houses dotted with illuminated windows might be found up the Hudson as well as on the English coast. But nothing has been lost by this suppression of the merely local. The differences of quality of the different blacks and grays and twilight tints that make up the picture, the composition, the movements of clouds and sails and water-these are what the painter cared about in this instance, and these are all successfully reproduced. As for M. Richeton's etching further praise than that given it by Mr. Law is unnecessary. The painter was extremely well pleased with the rendering of his work, and especially with the treatment of the sky, which is the most difficult portion of it, and on the effect of which everything else depends. *Whitby is at the mouth of the little river Esk. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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