FISHING BOATS off Holland Coast Stormy Sea - 1881 Original Etching by K. Thomas

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: Original Etching printed on laid paper with a watermark. Year of printing: 1881 Etched by: R,. Kent Thomas - Original artist: William H. Hilliard Publisher: Philip G. Hamerton, Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, Fleet Street, London Signature: Signed in plate (i.e. the artist scratched his signature into the original copper printing plate) Condition: 2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Few blemishes in blank margins. One, barely noticeable, in the upper left corner are of image. Very light grayish spots in the upper left corner of blank margins. Two light diagonal 'bends' in the bottom left corner of blank margin, not affecting the image. Dimensions: 9 x 13.5 inches (23 x 34 cm), include blank margins (borders) around the image.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavy - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin). Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green 'border' around the print in the photo is the contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print.Original Narrative: FISHING BOATS OFF THE COAST OF HOLLAND: OFTEN as Dutch fishing-boats have been painted, it is likely that they will be painted by many artists yet, as their clumsy forms are better adapted to pictorial treatment than the most elegant masterpieces of the yacht-builder. It does, however, seem as if Mr. Hilliard, in his desire to express the massiveness and heaviness which characterize Dutch boat-building, had rather exaggerated one thing—the thickness of the spars, especially of the yards; but the artist's own nautical experience is, no, doubt, a guarantee against any serious error. For the rest, it seems to us that there is a great deal of life and motion in Mr. hilliard's picture, and that it well conveys the impression of cloudy and gusty weather with changeful effects on sky and sea, a shower in one place and sunshine in another, tossing water and shifting wind. When we come to know the biographies of artists we often find an explanation of their choice of subject. Mr. Hilliard is not exclusively a marine painter; landscape is his principal subject; but it is natural that the sea should interest him, as he has been a sailor. It is natural, too, that Dutch things should interest and attract him, for he is descended on the maternal side from an old Dutch family, the Van der Heydens to which the famous painter Jan Van der Heyden also belonged. (Mr. Hilliard was born at Auburn, New York, in 1836). Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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