Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

Sidney Mackenzie Litten
Italian Boat at Sunrise

1920

About the Item

A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era. Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper, 9 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches, (251 x 229 mm), full margins. Signed in black crayon in the lower right margin, and titled and numbered 19/75 in pencil in the lower left margin. In excellent condition with minor toning on the verso at the extreme top sheet edge (does not show through to recto), otherwise superb. With an unknown collector's stamp with a stylized K and G in a square in black ink in the lower right margin on the verso (not in Lugt). An impression of the work may be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of New Zealand, Registration No. 1964-0001-24. Little is known about Sydney Litten. He studied at the Royal College of Art with Frank Short, and specialized in landscapes and architectural subjects. He exhibited at the Royal Academy (RA) and the New English Art Club (NEAC). He did the majority of his work in Spain and Italy. 51 of his prints are recorded in the annual Fine Prints of the Year starting in 1926 and ending in 1935. Like Whistler and McBey he did his etchings in series such as his Thames images and two Venice Sets of four prints each, done in 1928. Venice was the subject for fifteen etchings, exhibited until 1935, at which time Litten appears to have quit etching.

More From This Seller

View All
The Way Home. A Winter Evening
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful, dark impression of a bucolic cow path. Etching with drypoint on heavy cream wove paper, 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (174 x 248 mm), full margins. Uniform light brown discolorat...
Category

Late 19th Century English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Hillside Town
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching in brownish black ink on J. Whatman watermarked cream laid paper. 7x12 1/4 inches (177 x 312 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 36/75 in pencil, lower margin. In...
Category

Early 20th Century English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching, Drypoint

Temple of the Dea Tussis
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching and aquatint with engraving on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), full margins. Small spots of adhesive resi...
Category

Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint

Temple of Fortuna Virilis
By Matthew Dubourg
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. Taylor, 1820. Etching and aquatint with engraving on cream wove paper with a gilded edge, 11 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (290 x 374 mm), full margins. Small spots of adhesive residue from a former mount at each edge on the recto. Light ghost impression in the area of the sky. Scattered minor areas of light brown discoloration, with a 3 3/4 inch horizontal edge loss along the lower left sheet edge, outside of the platemark. Colors remain fresh. Plate No. 3 from Wonders: Images of the Ancient World. Likely printed 1828. A view of the Temple of Hercules Victor...
Category

Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint

Gresham College
By George Vertue
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with engraving on cream laid paper with a Garden of Holland or Maid of Dort Pro Patria watermark, 11 x 14 1/4 inches (278 x 361 mm), thread margins. Lettered with the title in a cartouche at the top-center sheet, continuing "a Latere Occidentali Prospeus AD MDCCXXXIX," with numbers over the image at right that correspond to a key 1 to 29, and with publication details: "Georgius Vertue Londini delineavit et Sculpsit anno MDCCXXXIX". Multiple expert repairs, notably a Y-shaped, expert paper tape repair on the verso. Handling creases, toning. All issues are consistent with age. An impression of this work may be viewed in the permanent collection of the British Museum, registration No. 1880,1113.3963. A bird's eye view of the college in Broad Street, London, showing the courtyard, adjoining stable yard to the right, and the buildings at the back. This work was included in Frederick Crace...
Category

Early 18th Century English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching

Amida, a Deity of Japan – English School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Amida, a Deity of Japan; One plate from A new and complete collection of voyages and travels containing all that have been remarkable from the earliest period to the present time Vol...
Category

Late 18th Century English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving

You May Also Like

"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
By Paul Albert BESNARD
Located in Soquel, CA
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist "Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist A Drypoint etching on Wove...
Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

JOB SACRIFICED - And My Servant Job Shall Pray For You
By William Blake
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM BLAKE (British 1757-1827) JOB'S SACRIFICE - And my Servant Job Shall Pray For You, 1825 (Bindman 1978.643; Binyon 1926.123 iii; Russell 1912.33) Engraving, First edition, one of 100 sets printed directly onto Whatman wove paper with a 1825 watermark. and the word “proof” removed. From "Illustrations of the Book of Job...
Category

1820s English School Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

Forellenweiher - Etching and Drypoint by Franz Von Stuck - 1890s
By Franz von Stuck
Located in Roma, IT
Forellenweiher is a wonderful black and white etching and drypoint on wide rod cream paper realized by Franz von Stuck in 1890-1891. Hand signed in gr...
Category

1890s Symbolist Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Norwich – The Cathedral Route Original Vintage British Travel Poster
By Frank Newbould
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Travel Poster by Frank Newbould, commissioned by LNER (The London & North Eastern Railway of England & Scotland) to promote its connection to Norwich; beautifully pr...
Category

Early 20th Century English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper

Stoops in Snow
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Stoops in Snow. 1930. Drypoint and sandpaper ground. McCarron catalog 89.state ii. 9 x 14 7/8 (sheet 13 1/4 x 18 7/16 ). Edition 115 recorded impressio...
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Stoops in Snow
$35,000 Sale Price
30% Off
Vachère au Bord de l'Eau
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830-1903) VACHERE au BORD de l’EAU 1890 (Delteil 93 viii/viii) Etching, unsigned as published in “Gazette des Beaux Arts”, Paris, 1890. On laid paper Very...
Category

1890s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Recently Viewed

View All