[Rarebooks] FS: George Washington: Collection of 20 large ORIGINAL SIGNED ETCHINGS by Childe Hassam, Robert Lawson, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

[HASSAM, Childe; HORTER, Earl; CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel; LEWIS,  Allen;
LAWSON,    Robert;  WEST,  Levon;   WRIGHT,  George;   etc.].   TWENTY
MASTERPIECES  IN ETCHING [GEORGE WASHINGTON]. (New York): The American
Art  Foundation A collection of twenty large folio (14-1/2" x 19-1/2")
ORIGINAL  SIGNED ETCHINGS by twenty different artists, all on  various
aspects  of the life of George Washington. Included are the  following
SIGNED  etchings:  Bowling on the Green by Childe  Hassam;  Braddock's
Defeat  by Earl Horter; Pohick Church by Ernest David Roth; Enroute to
the  First Continental Congress by Eugene Higgins; The British  Driven
 From  Boston, 1776 by Allen Lewis; The Midnight Retreat by Levon West;
Valley  Forge  by George Wright; Stemming the Retreat at  Monmouth  by
Kerr  Eby; Fraunces Tavern, New York City, 1783 by Samuel Chamberlain;
New  York  Welcomes a National Hero, 1789 by Robert Lawson; The  Levee
by  Walter  Tittle; Colonial Home Live by Arthur William  Heintzelman;
Conquering  the  Wilderness by Robert Nisbet; Fort Le Boeuf  by  Sears
Gallagher;  A  Virginia  Garden by William  Auerbach-Levy;  The  First
American  Army  by  Ralph  Boyer;  The Surrender  by  F.  Louis  Mora;
Preventing  A  Military  Dictatorship by Albert  Sterner;  Farming  at
Mount  Vernon  by  Louis  Conrad  Rosenberg;  and  The  Constitutional
Convention,  1787  by  John  W.  Winkler. Each  etching  is  a  SIGNED
original  inspected  and approved by John Taylor Arms.  Included  is a
folio  four-page letterpress pamphlet printed in red and black  giving
biographical  information  about  the artists as well  as  a  six-page
typed  explanation  of the plates. Heavy foxing to the margins of  the
Mora  etching;  very mild foxing to the margins of one or two  others.
Otherwise Fine in the original clamshell box. Scarce!         $5000.00

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