1892 Timothy Cole: Angel Sounding the Trumpet, after Signorelli - wood engraving

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1892 Timothy Cole: Angel Sounding the Trumpet, after Signorelli - wood engraving:
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1892 Fine, original, wood engraver\'s proof on Japan paper: Timothy Cole:Angel Sounding the Trumpet, after Luca Signorelli. Produced for a limited edition of 67 proof impressions of images Cole cut for the book Old Italian Masters. In the final impressions included in the portfolios, Cole would have signed just beneath the image on the right. These large sheets of Japan paper were made specially for this purpose and are preprinted beneath the image with the following testament by J. C. Bauer: \"This impression, taken by hand on Japan paper, is one of one hundred and twenty-five copies printed by me from the original wood block in the year 1892.\" And beneath this: \"Professional Proof-printer for Wood-engravers,\" over which Bauer would sign in pencil. This must have been an early proof, or perhaps an extra impression, from Bauer\'s stock. Some creasing, image is fine. Dimensions: 5 1/4\" x 7 7/8\" (image); 17\" x 13 1/4\" (sheet.) Rare.Refering to this print, From Scott Ponemone remarks: \"Brandt’s book also shot down an assumption of mine. when I had looked through the pages of the huge SAWE [Society of American Wood-Engravers] volume [Engravings on Wood], I had thought I was looking at images printed from the wood blocks. Wrong! I was looking as electrotypes, images taken off metal plates that were electrically-made facsimiles of the original wood black. Brandt gives two reasons: 1) the metal plate withstood the pressures of the printing press and could last for as many at 100,000 impressions and 2) the original, so delicately carved wood blocks were immensely difficult to print. So difficult were they to print that in New York, the heart of the publishing business, the New School engravers relied mostly on one man, John (J.C.) Bauer, to do the proofing. It took him hours to adjust the proof press with various shims and make-readies. He also needed to use the finest of tissue paper, usually called Japan paper, to print on. So, thanks to Brandt, I learned that only the images on Japan paper could usually be called wood engravings. However, Bauer and others did print proofs directly from wood blocks onto wove paper that were signed by the interpreters.\" From Scott Ponemone, New School Wood Engravers: Forgotten 19th Century Celebrities, Jul 01, 2013 in Art I See.

This, and other wood engravingsthat I am currently offering on are from the inventory of Kennedy Galleries, one of the oldest art galleries in the country. I obtained them as a single lot at sale. Founded as H. Wunderlich & Company in 1874, as a seller, primarily, of \'fashionable prints\', the name changed to Kennedy & Company in 1912, and to Kennedy Galleries in 1952. The gallery space closed in 2005, and the print inventory has been liquidated over time. The wood engravings were very likely acquired by Wunderlich and Kennedy close to the time that they were originally produced.