Grosvenor Prints is now closed for the holidays!

 

Greetings.
A. Bauerle [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 80 x 130mm, 3½ x 5¼". Glued into a mount.
An angel embracing a small boy, at the head of a queue of children, apparently an alternative Christmas card. Amelia Bauerle (or Bowerley), died 1916.
Guichard: "Competant lady etcher with a penchant for mermaids". Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 17780] 

Seasons Greetings!

Grosvenor Prints is now closed for the holiday period. 

We shall reopen at 10am 4th January 2022.

Feel free to browse the website however please note that we won't be answering enquiries. If you are worried an item might sell before you can ask us a question we suggest you order it, as it will be automatically placed on reserve for you and we process our orders manually so you won't be charged.
 
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

In the sentiments of this print let us hope that next year shall be better than the last:


 With All Good Wishes For A Better Year. Jan.y 1909. Time And Tide Waits For No Man.
[Robert Walker Macbeth.]
1909.
Etching printed in brown ink with very large margins. Platemark: 185 x 210mm (7¼ x 8¼").
A New Years greeting card from 1909 by Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, Robert Walker Macbeth RA (1848 - 1910). A Grim Reaper wearing a hooded gown, holding a timer in his outstretched right arm and a sythe in his left, wades through water to the left. A winged female figure clings to him as she holds up a banner inscribed, 'Time and Tide Waits For No Man', supported on both sides by three putti.
[Ref: 35540] 

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