Mare & Foal

 

Howard Everett Smith

  1885 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1945  

etching 

8 3/4 x 6 7/8" image size 

pencil, lower right; signed in the plate, lower right center 

not stated 

pencil titled, lower left; additional titling in lower left sheet corner reads "Mare - Crepuscule" 

 

cream wove 

published 

artist 

ROCA124 

$300.00 

An annotation in the lower left corner of the sheet reads "Mare - Crepuscule", which may refer to the champion racehorse Crepuscule, who among other awards won the Hurst Park Virginia Plate in 1948. She was also the dam of four Stakes winners.