[Rarebooks] FS: SET OF 20 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS CHRONICLING THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, all SIGNED, including Childe Hassam, Robert Lawson, etc., price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $5000   Now  $4000:

[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.         $4,000.00

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