"Pioneers Resting" by Eugene Higgins, Amer., (1874-1958) Engraving

"Pioneers Resting" by Eugene Higgins, Amer., (1874-1958) EngravingEtching, 1938, ed. 149, LC 164, 5 3 4 x 7 7 8, on cream wove paper, signed in pencil. The image is fine, but there are marginal issues. There is a very pale mat line, a small repaired puncture in the lower left margin and a short repaired tear at the right center margin edge. Higgins, who was called "The American Millet" for his many empathetic images of the rural and urban poor, summered in Old Lyme Ct for many years.

Though this appears to be an aquatint and in fact was printed from an intaglio plate

13-7/8 x 9-11/16

with subtle modulations of value and a remarkable quality of light on form

1960's-70's

glue stains & abraisions in the margins 1/2" outside image

traces of brown water tape at margin edges

and a small discrete compression to the surface at top right of image border

Originally an illustrator who studied with Harvey Dunn and N

by Louis Prang & Company

repaired short edge tear and hard creases to left margin below center

6-5/16 x 9-3/8

11-3/8 x 10-3/4