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On the Chicago River by Bertha Evelyn Jaques

On the Chicago River by Bertha Evelyn Jaques

On the Chicago River

Bertha Evelyn Jaques

Title

On the Chicago River

 
Artist

Bertha Evelyn Jaques

  1863 - 1941 (biography)
Year
1901  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
8 1/2 x 4" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
unnumbered, presumed small 
Annotations
pencil titled in lower left corner of the paper; pencil dedicated: "To Chas. B. Keeler- / April 2 1915"; Artist's initial monogram inscribed into the plate in lower left with the date 
Reference
no.18, checklist of the 1910 Chicago Society of Etchers exhibition; Czestochowski 58 
Paper
ivory, Imperial Japan laid paper 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
20772 
Price
SOLD
Description
A very early etching of the river by an important Chicago printmaker Bertha Jacques. It is listed as no.18 in checklist of the 1910 Chicago Society of Etchers exhibition. Rare!