"Worth Crowing About" by Philip Kappel, Amer., (1901-1981)

Drypoint, 1940, Ref. F.H. p.36, Ed. unknown, 5-15/16 x 4, signed in the plate and signed & titled in pencil, and again at bottom left margin edge, annotated at right in pencil: "Fine early print", on cream laid simili japan paper, a fine and richly inked impression of this unusual and charming domestic subject, not commonly seen. Ex-coll. of Toby Hall, the artist's biographer.