"Nurse with Candle" by Elisabeth Chase, Amer., (20th Century) Drawing This print

This print

in 1869 Greatorex was elected the first woman associate member of the National Academy of Design

tape stain lower right margin corner

mostly in the margins

"Nurse with Candle" by Elisabeth Chase, Amer., (20th Century) Drawing This printWoodcut, ca. 1920's 40's, ed. unknown but probably small, 4 1 4 x 4 3 8, signed in pencil, on thin cream laid japan paper, tipped to a cream wove support sheet. Small spots of foxing or staining from wood pulp inclusions in ther paper, mostly in arch above cross at right in image. A small but iconic image of the nurse as caregiver and healer to the sick, by this as of yet sparsely documented graphic artist.