Mar 05, 2020 - Sale 2532

Sale 2532 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
JOSEPH PENNELL
Lion Brewery.

Aquatint printed in dark brownish black on cream wove paper, 1887. 215x274 mm; 8 1/2x10 7/8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 20. Signed and inscribed "imp." in pencil, lower center. A brilliant, luminous, richly-inked, proof-like impression of this exceedingly scarce, early print with inky plate edges and printer's ink marks in the margins.

We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years. Wuerth 140.