Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Shotter Boys color lithograph
La Ste. Chapelle, Paris, Thomas Shotter Boys, color lithograph, 15 x 12 in. (38 x 29). Link is to the image page on Wikimedia Commons. Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was known for his urban and architectural subjects, both in watercolor and in lighographs. Here, in a color lithograph, he highlights the soaring 50 foot high…
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Eye Candy for Today: Empress Augusta leaves New York, Carl Saltzmann
Empress Augusta leaves New York (Kaiserin Augusta verlässt Newyork), Carl Saltzmann, chromolithograph. Link is to image page on Wikipedia. The available hi-res image is much larger than my crops. Carl Saltzmann, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was known for his seascapes and landscapes. Here, as the beautiful ship leaves…
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Eye Candy: Kamibashi Bridge at Nikko (Sacred Bridge) by Kawase Hasui
Kamibashi Bridge at Nikko (Sacred Bridge) *(see addendum, below) by Kawase Hasui, woodblock print, 15 x 10 (39 x 26 cm). The image of this impression of the print is from the ukyio-e.org site. A member of the shin-hanga movement in the early 20th century, Kawase Hasui had training in the methods of both traditional…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Chrome landscape etching
Tree on a Mound, John Chrome, etching, 13 x 12 in. ( 34 x 32 cm), in the collection fo the National Gallery of Art, DC. English landscape painter John Chrome, who was active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, evokes a wooded scene with a wonderful selection of straight and wavy lines…
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Eye Candy for Today: Auguste Lepere etching
Old Housea at Amiens, Auguste Lepère, etching. This is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in DC, which has a high resolution downloadable and zoomable image file. For some reason, they don’t list the etching’s physical size. My guess from the size of the needle marks would be around 5×7″ (13 x…
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Color woodcuts by Émile Antoine Verpilleux
Émile Antoine Verpilleux was an English-Belgian artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though also a painter, he was noted for his color woodcuts with their subtle but striking use of atmospheric perspective. He seems to treat the layers of distance in his images as distinct planes, almost like a stage set.