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"Piazza Firenze, Florence" by Ernest D. Roth, (Amer., 1879-1964)
1933, ed. ?, 9-15/16 x 9-5/16, signed, titled and dated 1933 in the plate, on cream laid paper with a partial watermark, a few tiny spots of foxing well away from image in the outer margins. A crisp and well inked impression. Ernest Roth's Italian prints of Venice were recently the subject of a traveling exhibition organized by Eric Denker of the National Gallery of Art, and featured summer 2012 at The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT. From the estate of CT artist C. Sperry Andrews, friend of Ernest Roth. Sperry and Doris Andrews were the 3rd generation of artists to reside at Weir Farm, Branchville, CT.