Harris Schrank Fine Prints

Reginald Marsh (1896-1954), Jersey City Landscape, etching and engraving, 1939, signed in pencil lower right [also signed and dated in the plate]. Reference: Sasowsky 187, third state (of 3); estimated printings in this state: 20. In very good condition, printed on an ivory laid paper, with margins, 7 3/4 x 11 3/4.

A strong impression. Only three proofs are known in the earlier states; the design was complete from the start. In the third state some engraving – a few lines and tiny buildings – was added just above the building at the far left.

The title is interesting: perhaps for Marsh the most interesting aspect of the Jersey City landscape was the Erie locomotive. The rest of the “landscape” consists of workers standing around or digging, and two women at the far right.

Detail

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Le Pont de Pierre, a Rouen, etching and drypoint, 1887. Reference: Delteil 66, second state (of 2).  Signed lower right in pencil, annotated lower left “No 4 Epreuve d’artiste Pont de Pierre a Rouen Zinc”.  In very good condition (tiny fox mark lower right), the full sheet with full margins, 5 x 7 3/4, the sheet 10 1/2 x 14 inches. Printed in black ink on a cream/tan laid paper.

A fine impression, with substantial burr from the drypoint work, with plate tone.

Delteil notes that Pissarro printed two impressions of the first state, and about thirty of the second; posthumous impressions are not known.

Rover dates the first state of Le Pont de Pierre as 1883, the period of Pissarro’s first visit to Rouen.