The Old Print Shop

Towers of Mid-Manhattan. (First state).

  • ARTIST: Anton Schutz

  • MEDIUM: Etching,

    DATE: 1929

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 8 7/8 x 11 13/16" (225 x 300 mm).

  • DESCRIPTION: First state. <br><br> In the second state lines are added and extended to buildings in foreground. Considerable linework added to buildings and street, creating greater contrast overall. Third state: no additional linework detected. Much more subtle than 2nd st.- not so contrasty. Fourth state: linework added to sky and foreground-building facades on lower rt., building and roof details added lower left and left margin. There seems to be a large printing of the fourth state, unmarked as such, and then a "fifth" and final state with details added to church roof, roof tops and building facades extended almost to edge of plate lower quarter of print and left margin.<br><br>

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed in pencil. Inscribed "First state."

  • CONDITION: Very good condition.

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