Franz Marc Lion Hunt (after Delacroix) Berlin, 1913 Woodcut on handmade Japanese paper 28.2 x 34 cm; mount: 63 x 51.5 cm Marc uses the woodcut technique to simplify this composition, taken from a Delacroix (1798-1863) painting of 1855, so creating strong shapes that are typical of the German Expressionist style. The eye is drawn … Read more
James Abbott McNeill Whistler The “Adam and Eve”, Old Chelsea London, 1879 Etching on fine Japanese paper 17.6 x 30.4 cm Whistler’s depiction of life on the Thames in Chelsea is retrospective. This work shows an old riverside inn, The Adam and Eve, next to rows of dilapidated buildings which were demolished during the early … Read more
Joan Miró 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 … Read more
Graham Sutherland La Petite Afrique British, 1953 Lithograph This print is a study of a natural form that evokes a twisted and decaying human body, drawing comparisons with the Crucifixion images in Print Power. In 1953 he was working on the commission of a tapestry for Coventry Cathedral; there are echoes of that design in … Read more
John Sloan Connoisseurs of Prints (New York City Life Series) American, 1905 Etching Plate: 12.4 x 17.5 cm; sheet: 25.1 x 32. 9 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate in 2017 (No. 2017.1/1)
John Sloan Fifth Avenue Circus (New York City Life Series) American, 1905 Etching Plate: 12.2 x 17.3 cm; sheet: 25.4 x 32.1 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate in 2017 (No. 2017.1/2)
John Sloan The Show Case (New York City Life Series) American, 1905 Etching Plate: 12.4 x 17.5 cm; sheet: 25.4 x 32.1 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate in 2017 (No. 2017.1/3)
John Sloan 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)
John Sloan 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)
John Sloan 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)
John Sloan The Women’s Page (New York City Life Series) American, 1905 Etching Plate: 12.2 x 17.1 cm; sheet: 25.2 x 32.7 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate in 2017 (No. 2017.1/6)
John Sloan The Little Bride (New York City Life Series) American, 1906 Etching Plate: 13.1 x 17.3 cm; sheet: 25.4 x 32.9 cm Gifted by Delaware Art Museum and the Helen Farr Sloan Estate in 2017 (No. 2017.1/10)
Édouard Manet La guerre civile France, 1871 Lithograph Plate: 39.5 x 50.9 cm; mount: 68.3 x 77.1 cm The lithograph protests against the massacre of Parisian Communards in 1871 by French government forces. This marked the end of the tumultuous Franco-German War and the Seige of Paris. The central dead Communard is dressed in National … Read more
Max Beckmann 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 … Read more
Albrecht Dürer 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 … Read more
Jean-François Millet 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 … Read more
William Hogarth Noon (second in sequence from ‘The Four Times of the Day’) London, 1738 Etching and engraving, black ink on paper Paper: 49 x 41 cm; mount: 80.8 x 60.5 cm Dour-faced worshippers shuffle into the bright midday light from the Protestant French Huguenot church at St Giles’s-in-the-Field, London. Across the street, the rowdy … Read more
William Hogarth 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 … Read more
William Hogarth 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 … Read more
William Hogarth 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 … Read more
John Sloan 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)
Charles-François Daubigny 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 … Read more
Théophile Chauvel 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)
Johann Anton Ramboux 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)
Kurt Schwitters 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 … Read more
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther 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)
Jacques-Philippe Lebas after Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Le Négligé Paris, 1741 Engraving Paper: 38.6 x 27.4 cm; mount: 63 x 51.5 cm Lebas’ print reproduces ‘The Morning Toilette’, painted by Chardin (1669-1779) in 1741. Many of Chardin’s pictures were of domestic interiors, scenes of childhood and maternal love, all of which were fashionable with 18th-century French audiences. … Read more
Jan Both The Mule Driver Netherlands, 1630s Etching 22 x 29.5 cm The mule with a low-slung head struggling under the weight of a heavy load is a motif that frequently appears in Both’s Italianate landscape scenes. For many, the mule was an affordable means of transport and an ideal working animal, combining the endurance … Read more
Samuel Palmer The Vine London, 1852 Etching Plate: 30.5 x 21.7 cm; paper: 41.5 x 29.5 cm; mount: 55.5 x 40.4 cm Bacchus, the Roman god of agriculture and wine, leaps from his chariot in a burst of bright light to meet his followers. Vines creep across the ground and entwine themselves around trees, while … Read more
Luigi Scaramuccia The Crowing with Thorns Italian, mid 1600s Engraving on laid handmade paper 52.5 x 35 cm Purchased 2000 (No. 2000.2)