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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.
[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.
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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.
[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. $75.
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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