HENRY FARRER (1843-1903)

Details
HENRY FARRER (1843-1903)

Sunset, New York Harbor

signed H. Farrer and dated 1880, l.l.--watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on paper
25 x 37½in. ( 63.5 x 95.4cm.)
Literature
The Daily Graphic, Jan. 26, 1881, p. 638, illus.

Lot Essay

RELATED LITERATURE:
R. Schneider, The Quiet Interlude: American Etchings of the Late Nineteenth Century-Prints from the Collection of Rona Schneider, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1984, p. 2, no. 16, cover illus.


This watercolor was translated into an etching dated Nov. 5, 1880, and inscribed to J. D. Smillie from H. F. The print was shown in an exhibition of late nineteenth-century etchings-The Quiet Interlude at the Mead Art Museum in 1984.