"Rio Della Pergola, Venice" by Ernest D. Roth, Amer., (1879-1964) Fresco signing and dedicating it to

signing and dedicating it to fellow artist Chaim Gross

printed in a warm brown ink on chine colle affixed to a thick cream laid support sheet

re-etched 1941

signed & dated in black pencil

signed with initials below the tree at image right and with the printed text in the lower margin

"Rio Della Pergola, Venice" by Ernest D. Roth, Amer., (1879-1964) Fresco signing and dedicating it toEtching, 1925, 13 14 x 6 1 8, signed, titled & dated in pencil, on cream laid simili japan paper, thinning to edges from previous removal of tape. A more emotive work by Roth, with the wavering line quality and narrow vertical format contributing a sense of brooding movement to the walls as well as the surface of the water in the canal.