Young Love Düsseldorf, 1840 Etching 24.1 x 28.7 cm This Romantic etching is a highly atmospheric scene of love and death on a moonlit mountainside, taken from Heinrich Heine’s ‘Buch de Lieder’. ‘Love, O Love, it was your might, brought us to our sorry plight’. Their existence blighted by self-destructive love, ghostly figures rise from … Read more
The Morning after the Masked Ball Germany, 1840 Etching Plate: 21.5 x 29.1 cm This Romantic etching is an intense depiction of hallucinatory artistic inspiration. According to Boetticher, this is the artist Theodor Emil Richter in a dream-like state in his studio. Purchased 2001 (No. 2001.5)
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt Frankfurt, 1893-97 Lithograph 20.2 x 23.2 cm Thoma sets this scene of the Holy Family resting within a realistic representation of rural life. The religious imagery is understated. Instead of the divine intervention of an angel, a female figure brings food to the family. The solitary poses of … Read more
The Infants Christ and St John playing with a Lamb Flemish, about 1635 Woodcut 34.4 x 45.9 cm Purchased 2002 (No. 2002.4)
The Brothers Eberhard Rome, 1822 Lithograph 32.2 x 34.8 cm Chalk lithograph on white wove paper. A double portrait of the Eberhard brothers, a painter and a sculptor. Purchased in 2003 (No. 2003.4)
La vieille aux loques (The Old Rag-Picker) London, 1858 Etching 20.6 x 14.6 cm An old woman sits in a doorway absorbed in sorting rags. Although the rag picker is shown as poor and frail, her focus and disengagement from the viewer creates a calm and contemplative image. The framing device of the doorway ensures … Read more
Merz V Berlin, 1923 Lithograph Paper: 55 x 44.5 cm; mount: 81 x 61 cm This print is a combination of abstract, geometric forms and is one of a series of six works called ‘Merz Mappe’. Freshly printed fragments of paper, discarded from the printing process, were applied to a lithographic stone to create this … Read more
Before the Storm near Moret (Avant L’Orage environs de Moret) Published in Paris, 1877 Etching 36.2 x 51.8 cm Purchased in 2004 (No. 2004.1)
Apple Tree at Auvers (Pommiers à Auvers) Auvers, 1877 Etching on laid handmade paper, third state Plate: 18 x 27.5 cm; mount: 40.5 x 55.7 cm This print was made a year before Daubigny’s death in 1878. A peasant figure makes a path through the landscape equipped with tools for the cultivation of nature. The … Read more
La Baigneuse (The Bather) France, about 1910 Colour woodcut 19.1 x 18.8 cm Beltrand helped pioneer the use of water-based pigments in printing in France, inspired by Japanese printmaking techniques. Water based inks can produce subtle and delicate images, whereas more traditional Western woodcuts are often use oil based inks and are bolder or harsher in … Read more
Turning Out the Light (New York City Life Series) America, 1905 Etching Plate: 12.5 x 17.3 cm; Sheet: 24.4 x 29.8 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate (No. 2017.1/7)
The Young Couple (Junges Paar) Berlin, 1904 Etching and Aquatint 290 x 310 mm plate size Printed by Otto Felsing, Berlin; published by Emil Richter. Proof, with margins, signed by the artist. Purchased 2018 (Inv. No. 2018.1)
Night (from the sequence ‘The Four Times of the Day’) London, 1738 Etching and graving, black ink on paper Paper: 48.6 x 40.2 cm; mount: 80.8 x 40.2 cm Disorder and chaos rule in this side-street of taverns and brothels near Charing Cross. Children sleep under a table while a drunken Freemason is escorted home … Read more
Evening (third in the sequence from ‘The Four Times of the Day’) London, 1738 Etching and engraving with red ink Paper: 48.5 x 40.6; mount: 80.8 x 60.5 cm Clenched fists and furrowed brows indicate an oncoming tantrum as this brother and sister quarrel over a gingerbread man. The contrast between the children’s elegant clothing … Read more
Morning (first in the sequence from ‘The Four Times of the Day’) London, 1738 Etching and engraving, black ink on paper Paper: 48.8 x 39.7 cm; mount: 80.8 x 60.5 cm A wealthy spinster crosses Covent Garden Piazza on a freezing morning. The spinster’s attention is riveted on two embracing couples, causing her to ignore … Read more
The Diggers France, unknown date Etching Two men are digging in an inhospitable landscape. Their strong shoulders, curved backs and widely planted legs suggest the strenuous nature of their task. Millet often regarded peasant figures as evoking a sense of eternal and timeless toil in an unforgiving world. He un-idealised visions were seen by many … Read more
St Christopher Nuremberg, 1521 Engraving Paper: 11.7 x 74 cm; mount: 55.7 x 40.5 cm This print represents St Christopher, a third century martyr who served others by carrying them safely across a dangerous river. Christopher means ‘Christ-bearer’ and here he is shown bowing under the weight of a child who later revealed himself to … Read more
Self portrait with stylus Frankurt, 1917 Drypoint 47.5 x 33 cm Beckmann depicts himself holding the tool needed to produce such a drypoint print. The use of tense and wiry lines testifies to his derelict state, having been discharged from the German army after suffering a complete mental and physical breakdown, Yet, his intent gaze … Read more
Roofs, Summer Night (New York City Life Series) American, 1906 Etching Plate: 13.3 x 17.6 cm; sheet: 25.2 x 32.7 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate in 2017 (No. 2017.1/9)
Man, Wife and Child (New York City Life Series) American, 1905 Etching Plate: 12.4 x 17.1 cm; sheet: 25.1 x 32.4 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate in 2017 (No. 2017.1/7)
Fun, One Cent (New York City Life Series) American, 1905 Etching Plate: 12.2 x 17.3 cm; sheet: 25.2 x 32.4 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate in 2017 (No. 2017.1/5)
Man Monkey (New York City Life Series) America, 1905 Etching Plate: 12.2 x 17.3 cm; sheet: 25.1 x 32.7 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate in 2017 (No. 2017.1/4)
Help Spain (Aidez L’Espagne) Spanish, 1937 Stencil print 31.5 x 24.5 cm A Catalan farmer raises his fist in defiance of the Fascist attack against Spain’s Republican Government. In Miró’s handwritten inscription he describes the Fascists as a spent force as opposed to the people, whose creative determination will surprise the world. Purchased 2000 (No. … Read more
The Lake of Thun London, 1808 Etching with mezzotint 18.3 x 29.2 cm Etched by JMW Turner and engraved by Charles Turner (no relation), this print was the third plate of the artist’s Liber Studorium, a series of landscape prints intended to advertise his range. The production of which caused a disagreement between Turner and … Read more
Isleworth London, 1819 Etching with mezzotint 21 x 28.9 cm In 1804 Turner began renting Sion Ferry House at Isleworth in Twickenham and spent the summer of 1805 making oil sketches from a boat on the Thames. This print is based on those sketches and was published in the penultimate thirteenth part of Liber Studiorum. … Read more
La Gaité, Montparnasse Montparnasse, about 1919 Etching and engraving Plate 14.1 x 10.7 cm; mount 15.8 x 11.9 cm Purchased 2016 (No. 2016.6) Bequeathed by Charles Branchini through the Art Fund
Dieppe, Quai Henri IV Dieppe, 1915 Etching Plate: 19.5 x 13 cm; mount 21.4 x 14.7 cm Female singer at Café Vernet, Dieppe. Published by Carfax & Co. Purchased 2016 (No. 2016.5) Bequeathed by Charles Branchini through the Art Fund
There is Something Beneath the Sackcloth (So el sayal, hay al) Spain, about 1816-24 Etching with aquatint and drypoint Plate: 24.5 x 35 cm; mount 51.8 x 63 cm Purchased 1956 (No. 56.14)
Self Portrait France, 1896/7 Lithograph 63 x 47.5 cm Purchased 1992 (No. 92.3)
The Chain of the Alps from Grenoble to Chambéri British, 1812 Etching, with mezzotint by W. Say 186 x 288 mm This plate appeared in the tenth part of the Liber Studiorum series, and is based on sketches made during Turner’s 1802 European tour. He travelled specifically to see the Alps and this print belongs … Read more