Plate, Printing
1914 (Date manufactured/created)
copper
copper
5 inches H
X
6 inches W
Small, rectangular copper plate with Italian landscape scene depicting the small courtyard of a building. The building has a tower with windows. The courtyard has sawhorses and wooden planks. Back has been stamped "P. Casoni Firenze". Plate has been canceled with diagonal lines etched across image. Artist's sticker on back of plate reads "Courtyard in Florence (unknown) 1914?"
Ernest David Roth, painter and printmaker, was born on 17 January 1879 in Stuttgart, Germany and at the age of five years old, his parents immigrated to the United States. Roth was best known for his paintings and etchings of scenes of New York, Italy (especially Venice), and Spain. He studied painting at the National Academy of Design under Edgar Ward and George Maynard and at the New York School of Art under F. Luis Mora, and he studied etching techniques with James David Smillie.
Ernest David Roth lived and worked in Manhattan but eventually moved to West Redding, Connecticut. He died on 20 August 1964, at the age of eight-five years old, while visiting friends in Cambridge, New York. -The Annex Galleries
Ernest David Roth, painter and printmaker, was born on 17 January 1879 in Stuttgart, Germany and at the age of five years old, his parents immigrated to the United States. Roth was best known for his paintings and etchings of scenes of New York, Italy (especially Venice), and Spain. He studied painting at the National Academy of Design under Edgar Ward and George Maynard and at the New York School of Art under F. Luis Mora, and he studied etching techniques with James David Smillie.
Ernest David Roth lived and worked in Manhattan but eventually moved to West Redding, Connecticut. He died on 20 August 1964, at the age of eight-five years old, while visiting friends in Cambridge, New York. -The Annex Galleries
The Mattatuck Museum Collection
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