A Signed Paul Ashbrook Etching Titled "The Clipper Ship Model"
Item Details
A Paul Ashbrook (American 1867-1949) dry point etching, titled The Clipper Ship Model. The etching depicting a salty gentleman holding a model ship in a bottle. The artist’s signature style of detailing the character’s face and hands while loosely sketching the rest of the composition is evident in this image. The etching is pencil signed by the artist and is beautifully presented in a frame recently done by Closson’s, where it was also purchased long ago, as evidenced by the old label kept at the back. Please note that an additional Paul Ashbrook etching that has been framed in a similar manner is offered as item 15CIN009-446.
Paul Ashbrook was born in New York in 1867, his given name being Paul Von Eschenbach. He studied at the Art Students League under the tutelage of William Merritt Chase then later at the Cincinnati Art Academy with Frank Duveneck. Early in the 1920s, he worked for the Stonebridge Lithographic Company designing posters for the Barnum and Bailey Circus before traveling in Europe and Mexico in the later 1920s.
Condition
, the paper has appropriately toned from age.
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Item #
15CIN009-445
