Dancer (from "Ten Drawings in Chinatown) by Ernest Clifford Peixotto
Dancer (from "Ten Drawings in Chinatown)
Ernest Clifford Peixotto
Title
Dancer (from "Ten Drawings in Chinatown)
Artist
Ernest Clifford Peixotto
1869 - 1940 (biography)Year
1898
Technique
etching
Image Size
9 5/8 x 5 3/4" image
Signature
in plate, lower left
Edition Size
750
Annotations
Reference
Paper
thin, cream "India"
State
published
Publisher
A.M. Robertson, San Francisco, California
Inventory ID
19621
Price
SOLD
Description
A charming collaborative etching of San Francisco's Chinatown by California illustrator Ernest Peixotto to illustrate author Robert Howe Fletcher's "Ten Drawings in Chinatown", commissioned by San Francisco publisher and bookseller A. M. Robertson.
"Ten Drawings" is a scarce work and when found at all is usually in dreadful condition because of its cumbersome format, or incomplete because the portfolio format. The handsome separate plates tempted many printsellers and decorators to break up sets, such as this print. Also, A.M. Robertson's bookstore on Union Square was completely destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906 and any remaining inventory of this title would have gone with it.