Douglas Ian Smart, R.E. 1876-1970.

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England

All Saint's Spire, Stamford. Colored pencil drawing. 7 5/8 x 4 7/8. Drawn on cream wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled and initialed in colored pencil, lower right. $125.

Barge. Blue ink drawing. 4 1/2 x 7. Drawn on cream wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Unsigned. $95.

Barge Along the Thames. c. 1950. Blue pencil drawing. 5 9/16 x 9 1/16 (sheet 7 3/8 x 11 1/16). Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Drawn on cream laid paper. Unsigned. $125.

Boathouse Near Weybridge.(Surrey) Watercolor. 5 7/8 x 8 3/8 (sheet 7 1/2 x 9 5/8). Painted on cream wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled and initialed in ink, verso. Signed in pencil, lower right. $175.

Bosham. (Sussex) c. 1918. Watercolor. 6 x 8 5/8. Painted on cream wove watercolor paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Initialed, lower left. $125.

Boston. (Lincolnshire) Watercolor. 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 (sheet 8 7/8 x 11 1/6). Drawn on wove watercolor paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Unsigned. $150.

Caister (Caister Castle). Russet pencil drawing. 7 5/8 x 7 1/8. Drawn on textured wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Title and monogrammed in russet pencil, lower left. Signed in russet pencil, lower right. $125.

Caister Castle (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk). Watercolor and pencil. 14 x 18 1/8. Painted upon heavy cream wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled in pencil, verso. Monogrammed in pencil, lower right. $175.

Corfe (Castle, Dorset). Watercolor. 8 3/8 x 11 11/16. Painted upon cream wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled in pencil, verso. Signed in ink, lower right. $100.

{A Country Road}. c. 1921. Pencil drawing. 5 3/16 x 6 11/16. Drawn on watermarked laid paper from a sketchbook. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in pencil, lower right. $125.

Croyland. (Crowland)[Ruins of Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire]. c. 1924. Watercolor. 10 1/4 x 6 13/16. Painted on heavy cream watercolor paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled in ink, verso. Signed in ink, lower right. $150.

Distant Tewkesbury. (Gloucestershire) c. 1945. Watercolor. 8 x 11 7/8. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Painted upon cream wove paper. Titled and signed in pencil, verso.

Early Morning. (Durham). c. 1912. Etching. 7 1/8 x 12 1/4 (8 3/4 x 13 3/8). Printed on cream laid paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in pencil, lower right. Exhibited at the R.A. in 1950. $125.

Evening Stamford. c. 1915. Drypoint. 4 15/16 x 7 7/8 (sheet 5 3/8 x 11 3/16). Printed on tan wove paper with deckle edges. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled and annotated 'outskirts of Stamford' in pencil verso. Monogrammed, titled and dated lower left. Signed in pencil, lower right. $125.

In Fenland. Watercolor. 6 7/8 x 10 5/16. Painted on cream wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled in pencil, lower left. $125.

Lowtide Bosham. c. 1918. Crayon drawing. 5 7/16 x 7 3/8. Drawn on cream watermarked laid paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Unsigned. $85.

Smart exhibited an etching of this title at the Royal Academy in 1918.

Moonlight; Rye. c. 1948. Mezzotint. 6 7/8 x 9 7/8 (8 3/4 x 11 3/4). Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Printed on cream wove paper. There are scatter, unobtrusive foxing. Annotated in upper margin '2nd {state} plate not completed'. Unsigned. $200.

Smart made very few mezzotints.

{Moored Boats}. c. 1935. Pencil drawing. 5 1/8 x 6 3/4. Drawn on tan watermarked laid paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Unsigned. $125.

Parrog, Pembrokeshire. Watercolor. 5 3/4 x 9. Painted on cream laid paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled and numbered in pencil, verso. Signed in pencil, lower left. $175.

Repairs to S.T. John Wilson.(London) c. 1912. Crayon drawing. 7 13/16 x 8 3/4. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Sketch of a trawler, verso. Signed and titled in ink. $175.

Richmond, Yorkshire. c. 1900. Ink drawing. 10 3/8 x 14 15/16 (sheet 11 x 15 1/2). Drawn on heavy cream wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, lower right. $125.

Octagon Gallery on Ludgate Hill. (London). Pencil drawing. 9 15/16 x 7 1/8 (sheet). Drawn on cream laid paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled in pencil, upper right and lower right. $175.

St. Martin's Church, Ludgate Hill. (London). Pencil drawing. 10 x 9 7/8 (sheet 14 7/8 x 11). Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Drawn on cream wove paper. There is a horizontal fold in the center, and there are tack holes in ther four corners from exhibition. Unsigned. $175.

The Octagon Gallery is located on Ludgate Hill in London. The main building in the Gallery is St. Martin's Church, which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

Tewkesbury. (Gloucestershire). Etching, early state. 5 1/4 x 9 7/8 (6 13/16 x 9 3/8). Printed on cream laid paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled in pencil, lower left $200.

Tewkesbury. (Gloucestershire). Etching and drypoint, final state. 5 5/16 x 8 1/16 (sheet 6 3/8 x 8 5/16). Printed on tan wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in pencil, lower right.

$250 for the pair

Thames Barge. c. 1915. Russet pencil drawing. 10 3/4 x 14 3/8. Drawn on cream wove paper with deckle edges on two sides. There is a vertical center fold in the paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Annotated 'all lower deck grey hull brown deck houses' in brown pencil, lower right. $100.

Thames Shipping. c. 1935. Blue ink drawing. 5 3/4 x 8 15/16. Drawn on tan wove paper from a sketchbook. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Writing and tugboat dawing in pencil, verso. Monogrammed, titled and dated lower left. $125.

Wind, Sail, Steam; Limehouse Reach. Etching. 5 x 8 1/2 (7 x 9 3/4). Printed on blue/green laid paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in pencil. $250.

Wivenhoe (Essex). c. 1927. Etching and drypoint. 7 x 9 7/8 (sheet 8 5/16 x 10 7/8). Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled and nnotatated 'trial proof' in pencil, lower left. A rich impression printed on fine cream laid paper. Signed in pencil, lower right. $175.

"Wivenhoe is the home of the University of Essex. The town's history involves fishing, yachts, dinghies, ships and smuggling; a pretty church, with a distinctive cupola on top of its sturdy tower, stands on the site of the first church, built in Saxon times. The streets are small and quaint, leading into each other and ending at the picturesque waterfront where fishing boats and small sailing craft bob at their moorings."

France

At Granville. (France). c. 1937. Ink and watercolor. 6 1/2 x 11 1/4. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Painted on laid paper with partial 'Britannia' watermark. Signed and titled in pencil, verso. Dated in pencil, lower right. $200.

Banks of the Seine, Near St. Andeleys c. 1909. Etching and drypoint. 7 x 9 7/8 (sheet 8 5/16 x 10 7/8). Exhibited at the R.A. in 1909 and 1917. A fine impression with rich plate tone printed on cream laid paper. Signed and titled in pencil, lower right. $175.

Smart made an etching of Granville Harbour: Low Tide.

The Bell Tower (The Church at Marseilles). c. 1932. Etching and drypoint. 11 3/8 x 8 15/16 (sheet 13 3/8 x 10 1/4). Printed on the full sheet of cream wove paper. Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1932. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Foxing in the right hand margin. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated "3rd proof" in pencil. $150.

Beynac. (France). Watercolor. 8 7/8 x 14. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in ink, lower right. Signed and titled in pencil, verso. $175.

Castle Towers Vitré. (France). Watercolor. 13 x 8 1/8. Provenance: a collection of etchings, drawings and watercolors. Painted on cream laid paper. Signed and dated in ink, lower right. Signed and titled in pencil, verso. $150.

La Chantre. Pencil drawing. 8 3/16 x 9 1/2. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled in pencil, lower left. Signed in pencil, lower right. $125.

Le Château Gaillard, from across the Seine. (France). c. 1908. Pencil drawing. 6 1/2 x 10 7/8 (sheet 7 x 11 5/16). Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Drawn on tan wove paper. Signed and titled in pencil, lower right. $175.

Granville. (France). c. 1937. Watercolor. 11 3/16 x 8 1/4. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Painted upon heavy watercolor paper. Signed in pencil, lower left. $150.

The Harbour, Fécamp. c. 1929. Pencil drawing. 6 1/4 x 10 9/16. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed and titled in ink; dated in pencil, lower right. Excellent condition. $100.

Montreuil-sur-mer. (The Citadel) Watercolor. 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 (sheet 10 1/4 x 14 1/2). Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in ink, lower right; also signed and titled verso. $175.

{Provins}. (France). Pencil Drawings. 11 3/8 x 9. Drawn on wove watercolor paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Titled and numbered in pencil, verso. Signed in pencil, lower right. $125.

Roman Arch, Orange. (France). c. 1928. Watercolor. 13 3/4 x 9 5/8 (14 7/16 x 11 1/4). Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Painted upon heavy, tan watercolor paper and embossed. Signed and monogrammed in ink, verso. $175.

Ste. Cecile.(Albi) c. 1928. Drypoint. 9 1/4 x 15 (sheet 11 1/2 x 16 7/8). Printed on cream wove paper with a very rich imprint. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in pencil, lower right. $200.

The Netherlands

A Dutch Tide. c. 1924. Etching and drypoint. 4 3/16 x 7 7/8 (sheet 5 1/2 x 8 3/4). A rich impression printed on fine laid paper. There are two small stains on the top left plate edge and the margin; otherwise in fine condition. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1924. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. $125.

The Great Church, Veere. c. 1940. Drypoint. 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 (10 x 14). Printed on the full sheet of laid paper. Signed in pencil. Exhibited with the Royal Etchers in 1940. $175.

Zierikzee, Zeeland. (The Netherlands). c. 1949. Pencil, ink and watercolor. 10 x 10 1/8. Painted upon cream wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in ink, lower right. Signed and titled in pencil, verso. $150.

Spain

Manresa. (Spain). c. 1937. Etching and drypoint. 9 3/16 x 10 11/16 (sheet 10 1/16 x 11 1/4). Printed on the full sheet of cream wove paper. Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. Signed in pencil, lower right. $125.

Toledo Bridge, No. 3. (Spain). c. 1911. Etching. 5 7/8 x 9 5/8 (sheet 8 3/8 x 11 13/16). Provenance: a collection of Smart etchings, drawings and watercolors. A rich impression printed on bluish green wove paper. Signed in pencil, lower right. $150.

Toledo Bridge, No. 5. 1911. Etching and drypoint. 7 1/2 x 7 (sheet 10 5/16 x 7 1/2). A rich impression printed on cream wove paper. Monogrammed and dated lower left in the plate. Titled in pencil, lower left. Signed in pencil, lower right. $150.

A leading English etcher, engraver and watercolourist, of the 1920's and 1930's, Douglas Ian Smart studied printmaking techniques in London, under Sir Frank Short. Smart was a member of the Royal Society of Etchers and Engravers, and exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy. He etched and painted in England, France, Spain and Italy. He exhibited at Colnaghi, Chenil Gallery, Connell and Son Gallery, The Fine Art Society, the Glasgow Institute, The International Society, The Walker Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Etchers and Engravers, and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He specialized in architectural subjects.

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