Approach to Segovia, Spain (aka: Segovia from the Porta de Madrid)

 

Ernest David Roth

  1879 - 1964 (biography)

1921 - 23 

drypoint 

5 x 11 11/16" platemark 

pencil, lower middle 

proof; edition not stated 

titled and dated 1921 in plate, lower left; inscribed in pencil beneath signature: "1923"; titled "Segovia from the Porta de Madrid" and dated in lower margin in an unknown hand. 

Whitmore 76 

antique ivory laid paper 

proof 

artist 

20716 

$350.00 

In 1921 Roth traveled to Spain and did a series of 16 etchings which are sometimes referred to as the 'Spanish Series', of which this image is number 14, from Segovia. This etching is a perfect illustration of what Whitmore calls Roth's "judicious manipulation of contrasts," with the foreground in the boldest of lines, while the distant view of Segovia itself is rendered in the finest of drypoint. The city appears almost as a dream in the distance. The etching is pencil signed as well as having Roth's signature in the lower right hand corner of the plate.