Carel Nicolaas Storm van 'S Gravesande, “Polder at Weesp”, 1875

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 'S Gravesande (aka. Charles Storm van Gravesande) (1841–1924)

“Polder at Weesp” (aka. “Un Polders Près D'Amsterdam”) —a polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by dykes using windmills for drainage, 1875, a rare proof-state impression before lettering for publication as plate 288 in the art periodical, “L'Illustration Nouvelle par une Société de Peintres-Graveurs à l'Eau-Forte”, volume 7, 1875. Hamburger Kunsthalle offers a description of this print with the published lettering: https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/73069.  

Etching on tissue-thin Japanese paper, trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 15.4 x 25.7cm; (plate) 12.7 x 23.4cm; (image borderline) 11.5 x 22cm.

Inscribed in plate within the image borderline: (lower right corner) “Ch. de Gravesande pinx. et sculps.”

State i (of ii) before lettering for publication.

Rice 80 (Richard Austin 1887, “Catalogue of etchings and dry-points by Charles Storm van's Gravesande”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A. Mudge & Son, p. 17, cat. no. 80 [see https://archive.org/details/catalogueetchin00artsgoog/page/n19/mode/2up]).

Condition: a strong and well-printed proof-state impression trimmed with small margins around the platemark and laid onto a sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. Beyond a flattened fold in the margin at upper left, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, abrasions or stains.

I am selling this expansive view of lowlands surrounding Amsterdam and the windmills that drain and regulate the spread of water, for AU$240 (approximately US$155.50, EUR 134.12, or GBP 117.09), including express mail shipping worldwide.  Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this sensitively executed and very beautiful etching, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold

Charles Storm van Gravesande’s lithograph, “Decline of Day”, 1897

Charles Storm van Gravesande (aka Charles Storm van 'S Gravesande; Carel Nicolaas Storm van 'S Gravesande) (1841–1924)

“Decline of Day”, 1897, published in the English art magazine, “The Studio”, 1897, vol. 11.

Lithograph (or more specifically an Algraph—a term used at the close of the 19^th century to showcase what was then a new process in lithography of printing from an aluminium plate rather than stone) printed in a dark blue-green ink on buff coloured wove paper, signed with the artist’s monogram in the plate and blind stamped with the mark of “The Studio.”

Size: (sheet) 20.5 x 29 cm; (image borderline) 13.9 x 22.8 cm.

Inscribed in plate with the artist’s monogram at lower right corner.

Blind stamped in lower margin at right: “The/ Studio/ London”

Liberty Museum (Rimini, Italy) offers a description of this print: https://artsandculture.google.com/incognito/asset/decline-of-day-carel-nicolaas-storm-van-s-gravesande/lAFBCWCXtS-ocw?hl=en .

Condition: a faultless impression in near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, losses, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this remarkably atmospheric lithograph and, importantly, an early exploration of printing a lithograph from an aluminium plate (viz. an Algraph) for AU$238 in total (currently US$176.98/EUR149.07/GBP127.82 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this subtly beautiful lithograph of fading light on the shoreline, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold