Ernest D. Roth, Germ-Amer., (1879-1964), The Wheelwright Shop, New Rochelle Charcoal

Ernest D. Roth, Germ-Amer., (1879-1964), The Wheelwright Shop, New Rochelle CharcoalEtching, 1916, Ed. unknown, 9 15 16 x 12, signed, and titled in pencil, very faint mat line, light toning verso, pale hinge traces to top edge, thread of brown paper tape to left margin from drying after printing, on cream laid paper 12 7 8 x 14 7 8. A beautiful impression of this print.

Cooper Union

Graphite to verso for transfer

The tiny image on the Whitney's website does not expand

slight vertical toning at center & waviness to sheet as is common with this grayish tan simili vellum wove paper favored for late 19th century etchings published by Klackner

printed in blue ink

Faint mat line and pale trace of glue verso at margin edges

There is a pencil study of three related figures verso

This large new unsigned posthumous edition has not yet made it's way into the scholarly record

as Published in L'Artiste

Brewer was born in London to a family of artists

when she began to exhibit her prints

glazed with museum glass in black wood frame 8-3/4 x 7-1/2