Hubert Herkomer, A.R.A. and His Children

 

Hubert von Herkomer

  1849 - 1914

1879  

etching, printed chine colle 

13 7/8 x 8" platemark 

initialed in plate, lower left 

unnumbered, from the first edition as published by the British and Foreign Artists' Assoc. 

titled in plate; additional annotations etched in plate: "Drawn and Etched by Himself" along lower center plate edge; publisher's information and notation of entrance into the Library of Congress (Washington) etched along top edge of plate 

National Portrait Gallery NPG D9797 

thin ivory laid collaged to heavy cream wove support sheet 

published 

The British and Foreign Artists' Association (London, 1880) 

23000 

$250.00 

Bears the Printsellers Association blindstamp (Lugt 2051) with "HZ" initials in the center, in image, lower right. The Printseller's Association began stamping their small oval seal on the proofs they published in the mid 19th century, when unauthoriazed reproduction was an issue within the print trade.