Nov 12, 2020 - Sale 2550

Sale 2550 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CHILDE HASSAM
The Church Tower, Portsmouth.

Etching on antique paper, printed on a leaf from a Bible with marginal text recto and verso, 1921. 215x152 mm; 8 1/2x6 inches, full margins. Signed with the cypher, dated, dedicated and inscribed "imp" in pencil, lower margin. A superb, richly-inked and early impression with very strong contrasts and with the tack holes for drying at the extreme sheet edges. Cortissoz/Clayton 161.