"Passaic Meadows" by Mary Nimmo Moran, Scottish Amer., (1842-1899) Engraving Walker & Co

Walker & Co

this impression is likely an early proof without any letters

Fay's work deserves to be better known

The blurred fan shapes of the just sprouting leaves add movement and a harbinger of spring to the imposing stillness of Yale's Gothic Harkness Tower

Resika has exhibited extensively since the 1940's

"Passaic Meadows" by Mary Nimmo Moran, Scottish Amer., (1842-1899) Engraving Walker & CoEtching with Aquatint, 1881, New York Etching Club Annual 1889, 5 1 4 x 7 1 4, on cream laid paper, a little soil and creasing at margin edges, signed in the plate. A beautifully wiped impression with veils of tone in the sky and foreground heightening contrast of the light reflected in the pond and on the horizon. Not so commonly seen.