"Near Chichester" by Henry Franks Waring, Eng., (1900-1928) Slate Print

"Near Chichester" by Henry Franks Waring, Eng., (1900-1928) Slate PrintEtching, ca. 1920's, ed. unknown, 6 7 8 x 9 7 8, signed in pencil, on cream laid paper, a very faint mat line and pale glue stains in the outer left and top margins. Waring was a wonderful watercolorist and etcher, but detailed information about the artist is a bit elusive. This lovely print is reproduced on page 90 in "This Realm, This England", by Samuel Chamberlain, Hastings House, NY, 1941.

and  master printer

delicately etched with incredible detail

especially the procreative generative force we share in common with every other living thing on our planet

and produced many fine etchings of the floating city

water stain to upper & lower right & lower left corner edges

6 plus 3 proofs

The exotic costumes

a small repaired tear to left margin center edge

A tender and beautifully rendered composition of a colt leaning towards it's mother

and a horizontal handling crease image center

toned in mat opening

of Center Street Studio