Featured Etching of Venice

Here's an old piece picked up years ago (where,price-who knows). It's 18" by 13" overall,14" by 9 3/4" image size.
I'm wondering if the little pencil notations in the lower right hand corner could be printers proofing marks (not framer's notations) ? As always-thanks
PS-Last pics a watermark.

for looking.

 

You know it's the work of Sydney Mackenzie Litten?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/505268409/sydney-mackenzie-litten-british-1887?gpla=1&gao=1&

Debora

 

Another of his etchings by same printer in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. (Note it reads as "F.J. Head & Co." but it's "F.G. Head & Co.)

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/90983

Debora

 

Thanks Debora-Yes Litten,now to research 'Head & Co.' Do You think those little numbers are framers notations or printers notes on tweaking the printing plate or ink amount ?
PS-It aint the Louvre,but the Brooklyn Museum pops up a lot in my searches,some very fine stuff.

 

Not much on Head & Co. Seems to have been active in the 1910s-1920s.

Debora

 

That works date-wise for this piece,thanks Debora ! It does seem to be a 'laid on' paper,but obviously not 18th century variety.

 

The nearly incandescent light radiating from that doorway is a powerful focus...an' a mark of the engraver's skill. I really like it, bosco...thanks!

 

He's not Whistler but on this piece he got it the light.

 

Certainly superior to most works depicting Venice scenes.

Debora

 

I've got to conserve frame it.

 

Of donate it to the Brooklyn Museum.

Debora

 

If I'm ever in Brooklyn it's a bucket list destination,and I'll have the 'Westside Story' soundtrack on my headphones.

 

Fab museum. Unfortunately, it has to compete with The Met.

Debora

 

Yep,New York's the big leagues.

 

I sold this Litten in the shop a couple months ago.
Bought it at a yard sale, thought it was a James Mcbey when I first saw it.


This, not mine, is a James Mcbey.

 

Interesting comparison. Did you happen to notice the type of paper?

(I like your avatar)

 

No, I didn’t notice the paper type, it was in the original frame and matted. Sold as I found it.

The avatar photo is a couple years ago here on the bluff. The tree is windswept and reminds me of the ancient windswept pinions on my property in Colorado.