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REGINALD MARSH Smokehounds.
Etching, 1934. 305x229 mm; 12x9 inches inches, full margins. Ninth state (of 9). Edition of approximately only 13. Signed, inscribed "State IX 8/13" and dedicated "for Paul Cadmus" in pencil, lower margin. This impression printed by Paul Cadmus, New York. Ex-collection Paul Cadmus; and Jon F. Anderson and Philis Raskind-Anderson, Connecticut. A brilliant, richly-inked, proof-like impression of this extremely scare etching, with very strong contrasts, warm plate tone and no sign of wear.
Cadmus and Marsh printed plates for each other during a printing session at Marsh's studio in late 1934. Marsh gifted this print to Cadmus (which the latter had printed) and Cadmus an of his etching of his to Marsh. Sasowsky 158.
