Emily B. Waite Drypoint Etchings "The Market" and "Karlsbridge"

Item Details

A Collection of Two Drypoint Etchings by Emily B. Waite (1887-1980). These drypoint etchings on paper depict a city market on a rainy day and the famous landmark Karlsbridge in the European city of Prague, Czech Republic. The pieces are signed in plate by the artist to the lower center and lower left. The pieces are signed by the artist in graphite beneath the plate mark to the lower right with Roman Numeral XVIII written in graphite to the lower left of the plate mark on The Market. They are presented in a manila envelope titled Prague.

Emily B. Waite is best known for her oil portraits, still life paintings, and etchings. She began her formal artistic training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she studied from 1908 through 1910 under Philip Leslie Hale and Francis Luis Mora. In 1910 she received the Paige Traveling Scholarship and traveled extensively for two years throughout France, Spain, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Italy, studying and copying master paintings. Waite’s work is represented in the collections of numerous distinguished institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C.; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., among many others. This work was deaccessioned from the Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA. Proceeds from the sale of this item will go to benefit the museum.

Condition

- toning on both prints due to age.

Dimensions

- measures largest print paper; visible image measures 7.0" W x 5.0" H; smallest print paper measures 10.25" W x 6.5" H x 0.1" D; visible image measures 6.75" W x 5.0" H.

Item #

17BOS128-421