"Nurse with Candle" by Elisabeth Chase, Amer., (20th Century) Drawing in 1869 Greatorex was elected

in 1869 Greatorex was elected the first woman associate member of the National Academy of Design

some staining from oil to sheet verso

tape stain lower right margin corner

Calame was the premiere Swiss master of landscape lithography in the 19th century

a 1" repaired tear bottom margin center edge

"Nurse with Candle" by Elisabeth Chase, Amer., (20th Century) Drawing in 1869 Greatorex was electedWoodcut, ca. 1920's 40's, ed. unknown but probably small, 4 1 4 x 4 3 8, signed in pencil, on thin cream laid japan paper, tipped to a cream wove support sheet. Small spots of foxing or staining from wood pulp inclusions in ther paper, mostly in arch above cross at right in image. A small but iconic image of the nurse as caregiver and healer to the sick, by this as of yet sparsely documented graphic artist.