Blasons

1947 · 825 — 1947. Etching on antique cream laid paper with a partial indiscernible watermark 2 7/8 x 2 1/2 inxhes 74 x 64 mm full margins. Signed dated and inscribed "III" in pencil lower margin. A trial proof impression from the first state of 2 aside from the regular edition of 204 printed by Charles S. White assisted by the artist. In excellent condition with minor uniform age tone. <br /> <br /> Fletcher 409. Miniature Series No. 39<br /> French Church Series No. 48<br /> <br /> Paper: Arms was typical of the artists of this period - he was obsessed with paper a mania for collecting paper that could/would improve an edition. The quantity he left after his death distributed by his wife to fellow artists witnesses his love for finely made paper -paper interesting because of texture color distinctive weave.<br /> <br /> The earliest paper known to have been used by Arms came from a Baptismal Register Kirchen Ordnung The Reformed Church Middletown Dauphin County Pennsylvania 1708 bought in a bookshop in Philadelphia.<br /> <br /> His early prints 1915-1919 evidence paper taken from old books with gilded edges. Some prints appear on stationary from the Cisalpine Napoleonic Italy still bearing the estampe of the office or department; others carry penned ink page numbers taken from old ledgers of the Eighteenth Century-all beautiful shades of grey blue and green handmade ribbed and otherwise. Some of his color aquatints were printed on full sheets of heavy chine or Japanese vellum giving a sense of luxury in the richness of the stock and the width of the margins. There was a myriad of modern papers gleaned in England France Italy and the United States. -William Dolan Fletcher A Man For All Times p. 15. unknown