Oriental Shop (Plate B)

 

John William Winkler

  1894 - 1979 (biography)

1916  

etching 

4 13/16 x 6 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

titled in pencil, lower left margin; in pencil, lower right corner "Wi 70." 

Winkler checklist 65; 1974 Achenbach exhibition, page 11 

antique-white laid. 

i/i 

artist 

PMJ384 

$600.00 

Part of Winkler's "Chinatown Series" done in San Francisco. "Oriental Shop" was done in 1916 and is the reverse image of an earlier rejected plate (Plate A). A street scene showing the 'Sang Fong Wo' shop with an opium smoker seated to the right.