"Rio Della Pergola, Venice" by Ernest D. Roth, Amer., (1879-1964) Fresco

"Rio Della Pergola, Venice" by Ernest D. Roth, Amer., (1879-1964) FrescoEtching, 1925, 13 14 x 6 1 8, signed, titled & dated in pencil, on cream laid simili japan paper, thinning to edges from previous removal of tape. A more emotive work by Roth, with the wavering line quality and narrow vertical format contributing a sense of brooding movement to the walls as well as the surface of the water in the canal.

printed in a warm brown ink on chine colle affixed to a thick cream laid support sheet

re-etched 1941

often gifting it to friends as a memento of what he believed

was a mystery

signed & dated in black pencil

signing and dedicating it to fellow artist Chaim Gross

signed with initials below the tree at image right and with the printed text in the lower margin

plus proofs

Ernest Roth had studied etching at the National Academy under James Smillie and was already an accomplished artist

exhibitied at the Ridgefield Public Library Oct

A large and impressive scene documenting urban transportation in Newark in the early 1930's

along with the subtle play of light reflecting off the water'surface