Mrs Gotliff (Elizabeth Corbin Griffn Gatliff and her daughter Elizabeth) after a painting by Gilbert Stuart)

 

Henry Wolf

  1852 - 1916 (biography)

1898  

woodengraving 

6 3/8 x 5 1/4" image 

pencil, lower right 

9 (this impression 7) proofs 

pencil titled and dated “May 24th 1898” below the signature 

exhibited at 1915 PPIE, #7495 (with orig. label ) 

very fine ivory wove 

proof 

artist 

7094 

$500.00 

In 1915, the year before his death, the American wood engraver Henry Wolf won the Grand Prize for his printmaking at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The Wolf prints we have were available for sale at the PPIE and many were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE. and many, such as this, were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE, with his return address and the edition size and original price of $18.00 noted. This woodengraving was done after American painter Gilbert Stuart's portrait of 1798 of Mrs. Samuel Gatliff (Elizabeth Corbin Griffin) and daughter Elizabeth, which is in the collection of the Pennsylvania Acadamy of the Fine Arts. Samuel Gatliff was a Phildelphia merchant whom Elizabeth married at 17. They had four daughters.