"The Gate, Venice" by Ernest D. Roth, (Amer., 1879-1964) Featured Manuel Robbe was a master

Manuel Robbe was a master printmaker of the Belle Epoque who specialized in color aquatint views of Paris and intimate glimpses of fashionable french woman at leisure or in private domestic moments

SC where I purchased 3 pieces from his estate in the late 1980's

on very thin cream laid paper

this is a very fine example of one of her prints

on printing out paper

"The Gate, Venice" by Ernest D. Roth, (Amer., 1879-1964) Featured Manuel Robbe was a masterEtching, 1906, ed. unknown, A. E. 4, 6 1 2 x 7 1 2, unsigned, on cream laid paper. By 1905 when he left America for Europe, Ernest Roth had studied etching at the National Academy under James Smillie and was already an accomplished artist. Etching his first Venetian subjects just three years after Whistler's death, Roth was among the most talented of the next generation of etchers to focus on the floating city as a favored subject. This early view of