Francis Scott King, “The Sibyl”, 1887, after Frederick Stuart Church

Francis Scott King (1850–1913)

“The Sibyl”, 1887, wood engraving after Frederick Stuart Church’s (1842–1924) painting, published in New York in 1887 by Harper & Brothers as an original wood-engraved illustration to William M. Laffan’s (ed.) “Engravings on Wood, by Members of the Society of American Wood Engravers”.

Note that Archive.org offer an online view of this print and its context in the publication; see: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125015065655/page/n63/mode/2up.

See also the description of this print offered by The New York Public Library Digital Collections: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-4708-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.

Wood engraving printed on heavy wove paper with full margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 35.5 x 46.3 cm; (image borderline) 15.6 x 30 cm.

Inscribed in plate within the image borderline: (lower left corner) “[E?].S.CHURCH NY 85”; (lower right corner) “F.S.King.Sc”.

Letterpress text below the image: (left) “The Sibyl.—Copyright, 1887, by F. S. King.”

Condition: a well-printed and near faultless impression in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains—there is faint age-toning to the edges of the sheet—or signs of handling.

I am selling this large and exquisitely rendered wood engraving, for a total cost of AU$204 (currently US$135.13/EUR123.07/GBP104.99 at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU$204) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this exceptionally fine wood engraving—note the artist’s skill in modelling the silhouette edges of the figure so as to integrate the figure with its background rather than using an outline that would have separated the figure from its immediate surroundings—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold