Watercolor print Gilbert S Wright?

I have been buying prints and paintings at thrift stores and auctions over the last 10 years and I am not even sure when I bought this (sad). This is signed Gilbert S Wright and it looks like a watercolor to me. Maybe a watercolor over print? I cannot find another like it though. Not from any research site that I have access to. Looking for a title and publish date. Thanks for the help!

 

https://www.auctionninja.com/cleari...ght-print-arrival-at-gretna-green-197296.html

 

Thats it! Thanks so much for your help

 

Out of interest, this print was from a series of 4 telling the story of an elopement – ‘For Better or Worse’, ‘Anxious Moments’, ‘Arrival at Gretna Green’ (yours) and ‘All’s Well that Ends Well’. Based on the very close-up photo yours looks like it might be a photogravure with hand colouring. Should you ever take it out of the frame you may well find text in the margins (provided it hasn’t been trimmed). Also you may find that it’s printed on a very fine paper laid down onto heavier paper/card. If so the date will be around 1900. By the way, what are the dimensions? And what part of the print does that close-in photo cover?

 

I was going to suggest it looks like an aquatint -




both from: http://www.graphicsatlas.org/


This example of the print at auction includes photos of the text which may be hidden under the mat on your copy:

https://www.rhlee.com/auctions/5332...-at-gretna-green-by-gilbert-s-wright-1037-256

 

Aquatint is an intaglio process. I doubt it applies here. Some type of lithography seems more likely to me.

 

Why don't you think it's an intaglio print?

 

Admittedly there's only so much you can tell from the photos, but this simply does not look intaglio to me.

The link provided by @2manybooks shows the publisher as Raphael Tuck and Sons, and as printed in Vienna. Tuck was a producer of color postcards and other color prints using the most current technologies of the day. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, were leaders in color printing technologies. All the indicators are that this is some kind of color process relief printing, some kind of lithography.

The thing to do is to look at other Gilbert Wright prints. Sooner or later, you'll find a description that names the type of print.

 

Yes, you're right. I checked the BM site and found a monochrome example of the fourth in the series which is described as a photolithograph.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1955-0420-8