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I: Scene from W. D. Wattles Hell Fire Harrison. and II: Untitled Watercolor. Original Watercolor Drawing, Signed
by Merrill, Frank
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About This Item
1910. Two original watercolor drawing on artists board. I: mat size 500 x 375 mm., [19 ½ x 15 inches] and image size 485 x 320 mm [19 x 12 ½ inches]. II: mat size 500 x 390 mm., [19 x 15 ½ inches] and image size 485 x 360 mm., [19 x 14 inches]. Bright red, green, yellow and blue tones of watercolor highlighted with grey, white and brown. Signed by the Artist in lower margins. Manuscript legend written on lower border of mat I, which reads "Clapped his hands to his bloody face howling with pain and freight." Removed from original matting, card stock with some browning from age in margins, and some shadow of mat. Original art work by the noted book illustrator and artist Frank Merrill for the first edition of W. D. Wattle's Hell Fire Harrison and an untitled watercolor signed. Frank T. Merrill was an artist born in Boston in 1848. He studied art at the Lowell Institute and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and travel to England and Europe to study the masters. "His water colors are free in wash and color, and he has also been very successful with his etchings. Merrill's work has been used extensively for illustrating" and may be found in editions of Thackery, Irving, and others. Mantle Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, p. 239. (611) .
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- De Simone Company, Booksellers
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- 661
- Title
- I: Scene from W. D. Wattles Hell Fire Harrison. and II: Untitled Watercolor. Original Watercolor Drawing, Signed
- Author
- Merrill, Frank
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1910
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De Simone Company, Booksellers
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About De Simone Company, Booksellers
De Simone Company Booksellers specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The owner, Daniel De Simone, has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, and ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy. The business also deals in 19th-century Americana and fine books in all fields and languages.
De Simone Company Booksellers enjoyed its second opening as a book company in 2018 after a seventeen-year hiatus. Originally established in 1978, De Simone Company bought, sold, and evaluated rare books, manuscripts, and prints for twenty-two years before closing, when De Simone accepted the position as Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress.
De Simone held this position for fourteen years before moving to the Folger Shakespeare Library as the Eric Weinmann Librarian. In this position, he managed seven departments, including acquisitions, exhibitions, conservation, research services, and the Library's book, manuscript, and art collections. He held this position for three years before retiring in 2017 and reopening De Simone Company Booksellers.
Because of his experience in both the book trade and rare book librarianship, De Simone consults with institutions about the development and evaluation of their library collections. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles on the history of book illustration and early bibliography.
He is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the Print Council of America, the Grolier Club, the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, the American Printing History Association, the Bibliographical Society of America. He is also the Treasurer of the Antiquarian Book Seminar Foundation, a 501c3, which support the Colorado Antiquarian Books Seminar (CABS). Recently he has been appointed Secretary of Breslauer Prize for Bibliography by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.
De Simone Company Booksellers enjoyed its second opening as a book company in 2018 after a seventeen-year hiatus. Originally established in 1978, De Simone Company bought, sold, and evaluated rare books, manuscripts, and prints for twenty-two years before closing, when De Simone accepted the position as Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress.
De Simone held this position for fourteen years before moving to the Folger Shakespeare Library as the Eric Weinmann Librarian. In this position, he managed seven departments, including acquisitions, exhibitions, conservation, research services, and the Library's book, manuscript, and art collections. He held this position for three years before retiring in 2017 and reopening De Simone Company Booksellers.
Because of his experience in both the book trade and rare book librarianship, De Simone consults with institutions about the development and evaluation of their library collections. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles on the history of book illustration and early bibliography.
He is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the Print Council of America, the Grolier Club, the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, the American Printing History Association, the Bibliographical Society of America. He is also the Treasurer of the Antiquarian Book Seminar Foundation, a 501c3, which support the Colorado Antiquarian Books Seminar (CABS). Recently he has been appointed Secretary of Breslauer Prize for Bibliography by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.
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