"An Arcade Venice" by Ernest D. Roth, Amer., (1879-1964) Slate Print Sagot Editeur Paris lower left

Sagot Editeur Paris lower left corner

An early gouache maquette for a kindergarden class mural by James Guy

This large print exhibits a tour de force of composition with dramatic lighting effects and a sweeping crowd of figures dwarfed by towering architecture

especially with the colors so fresh

There is a pale mat line

"An Arcade Venice" by Ernest D. Roth, Amer., (1879-1964) Slate Print Sagot Editeur Paris lower leftEtching, 1907, Ed. ca. 75, 6 3 4 x 8 1 2, on cream wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, very faintly toned within mat opening. A richly inked impression of one of Roth's earlier Venetian subjects, this impression appears to be dated 1916, though the plate dates from 1906.