Plate, Printing

Plate, Printing


1941 (Date manufactured/created)
Copper
copper
Rectangular copper plate with city scene depicting a street with two horse carts and people in the foreground with a large building or marketplace in the background.  Building has store fronts, barred windows and a bell tower peeking above the rooftop.   Plate has been canceled with diagonal lines etched across image.  Artist's sticker on back of plate reads "Plaza de Jesu Passione-Sevilla-1941"
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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