Featured Need help with type of print, age, signature

Nice.
May be a lithograph.
'77 but probably not 18.
Randal
Randly
Randaly

 

Last 2 letters could be 'hy' or 'ky'. The figure looks like he could be a Chassidic Jew, but since they dress in the manner of 18th century Poland, scene may be set there & then, without having anything to do with Judaism.

 

I'd like to think it's an etching, but I can't be certain.

 

If you do a google image search, it comes up with this and actually it does look like it might be an edited version of yours. There may be info on the artist.

https://www.amazon.com/Foster-Biblical-Scholarship-Literature-Scolarship/dp/1589835336

 

Ok, here is another version and it does look like yours might have one figure removed and the other with a hat added. I guess people like the image, just not all of it.



Source: Picturesque Palestine, vol. 1, p. 86.

http://www.lifeintheholyland.com/garden_of_gethsemane.htm

 

BINGO! I think we gotta winner here! Good job sis!

 

It might or might not be. Getty images gives an earlier date and origin so I wonder if the link above is to a compilation of prints in the 1880s.


http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/i...ethsemane-royalty-free-illustration/471203193




garden of Gethsemane
'garden of Gethsemane' illustration from book 'Histore des croisades(Paris 1825-1826)'

 

Actually if you look at this version using the magnification, there seems to be a name on the bottom left. Harley?



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...b_gardener_at_work_(NYPL_b10607452-80305).jpg

 

Pretty sure yours is a much later copy. I think 1977 is probably right. The thing that bothered me about it was that undifferentiated cloud in front of the seated man. I see now, from the other links, that that is where the second man was edited out and the copyist did not know how to effectively fill the space. I don't care to speculate on the editing of the seated figure. Makes me wonder if this isn't a photo-edited ink-jet print.

The "Picturesque" series was very popular in the 19th C and covered the world - Picturesque everything. I think they started as illustrated magazines that were then compiled into books.

 

NARLEY, MARLEY, or could be HARLEY as you suggested!

 

I'm not sure if that's the artist or not.....it's all way beyond my pay grade

 

Calm down, frame it, put a price on it & BAM! soldddddddddddddddddd

 

I can't tell what kind of print this is, but it is an attractive image. I wouldn't expect it to make big bucks (the 19th C image probably isn't worth a whole lot), but I agree with James - it's saleable.

 

Agrees with MOS, it is attractive & certainly worth a frame. I just purchased a $32 fraktur, it's not antique & not valuable but, it's hand painted & frame is hand painted too, perfect for a small space on wall. Every object doesn't have to be in the masterpiece class to be sellable.

 

Book, It looks like you have an etching pulled from the original plate BUT that the figure has been burnished out of the scene and THEN the print was pulled!
Is it an etching?

 

Here's a picture of the original engraving "in situ".


The book is about 12" high, meaning the image measures about 8" by 6 1/2". It is probably a wood engraving. The books did include steel engravings, but they were not embedded in the text as this is.

From an online listing, the books included 40 steel engravings and 600 wood engravings.

The signature shown in post 10 is on this image and is different from the pencil siggy on OP's much larger print.

The books (4 vols) were published 1880-84. I don't think there's much doubt that the date on OP's is 19-whatever.