Isabel Beatrice Mesham. Born 1896.
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[Abstract Composition]. Copper etching plate. 9 x 11. Provenance: a collection of the artist's etchings, aquatints and etching plates. Unsigned. $275.
[Dockside]. Etching and aquatint. 5 3/16 x 5 15/16 (sheet 7 1/8 x 7 11/16). Printed with plate tone on cream wove paper. Scattered stains in the left-hand margin; otherwise in good condition. Unsigned. $75.
[Fox and Magpie]. Etching and aquatint. 5 7/8 x 8 7/8 (sheet 6 13/16 x 19 5/16). Printed on pale cream wove paper. Fine impression. Unsigned. $95.
[Frogs with Spawn]. Etching and aquatint. 8 3/8 x 6 3/8 (sheet 10 3/16 x 7 13/16). Printed on green wove paper. Unsigned. $85.
[Hillside Town]. Etching and aquatint. 5 x 6 7/8 (sheet 7 1/8 x 9). Printed on light green wove paper. Unsigned. $75.
[Lake Garda]. c. 1925. Etching and aquatint. 6 7/8 x 9 7/8 (sheet 8 1/8 x 11 1/8). Abrasion, lower left; otherwise fine condition. Printed on cream wove paper. Unsigned. $75.
[Malcesine, Italy]. 1930. Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink. 9 x 5 11/16 (sheet 11 1/2 x 8 1/8). Printed on tan wove paper. Sheet folded outside the image. Unsigned. $75.
[Riverside]. Etching and aquatint. 7 15/16 x 9 15/16 (sheet 9 9/16 x 11 5/8). Printed on brown wove paper. Small section of worn away paper in the top right corner inside the plate; even smaller piece near the top left corner. Unsigned. $85.
[St. Mary Church, Torquay, Devon]. Etching and aquatint. 7 3/4 x 5 7/8(sheet 9 7/8 x 7 3/8). Printed on pale green wove paper. Soft diagonal fold, discernable on the verso. Annotated in ink, verso "Our Lady Help of Christians and St. Denis R.C.Church. St Marychurch, Torquay by Isabel Mesham" $125.
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[St. Mary Church, with Stars, Torquay, Devon]. Etching and aquatint. 8 x 6 (sheet 9 1/8 x 6 3/4). Printed on cream wove paper. Unsigned. Diagonal folds across upper left-hand part and center of the image. Sold with the zinc etching plate, 8 x 6. The image on the plate is reversed in the etching when the etching is printed. $275 the pair.
[Two Frogs]. c. 1925. Etching and aquatint with watercolor. 6 7/8 x 8 13/16 (sheet 8 7/8 x 9 15/16). Printed on cream wove paper from a book. Unsigned. $95.
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[Woodland Landscape]. c. 1925. Etching and aquatint. 7 1/4 x 9 7/8 (sheet 9 1/4 x 11 3/4). Printed on cream laid paper. Unsigned. Annotated 'N3)' in ink and 'on a rather deep cream paper as sample, and logs and printed piece of wood rather darker (as to indicator)'. And a proof printed in colors, on cream wove paper, trimmed to just outside the image on the top left. Unsigned; annotated '1 like this' in ink.' $375 for the pair.
Isabel Mesham was born in Gorey, Ireland, in 1896. A painter and an etcher, she exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, at the Paris Salon, and at the Lisbon Academy.
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