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The Wooden Bridge, Venice, by Ernest D. Roth, Amer., (1876-1964)
Etching, 1906, Ed. unknown, 7-3/16 x 8-3/8, signed and dated 1906 in pencil, a pale trace of a mat line, penciled framers notations and old inventory number along bottom margin edge, on a fine sheet of antique cream laid paper with a watermark of a head in a circle, the sheet 9 x 10-3/4. A charming early, rustic, intimate and candid look at Venice by Roth; from his first group of Venetian subjects.