Italian Head

No place noted: No printer noted, 1928. Ephemera no binding. Fine. [ENGRAVING] [FRAMED PRINT]. 13 3/8" x 11 ¾" framed, mat opening 7 1/8" x 5 5/8"; etching signed with the artist's name and "first impression," dated lower right margin; new archival mat and backing, original framer's label replaced on backing paper: "From Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc., Rare Engravings and Etchings, No. 16 East 57th Street, New York."; light paint wear to frame; fine etching in near fine frame. Paul Drury (1903-1987) was a British artist who completed his education at Goldsmith's in London and returned to teach there after WWII. He produced 92 etchings during his lifetime, about half of them were portraits. He exhibited at the 1939 World's Fair in the British Pavilion. His work hangs in the National Portrait Gallery of London, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the National Gallery in Canada, among other places of note. The Daily Telegraph [London] obituary praised him as "One of the most distinguished etchers and draughtsmen in that remarkably gifted generation of printmakers who grew up between the two World Wars. [His landscapes] contain a deep poetic quality which was to exert a powerful influence on the succeeding generation of neo-Romantic artists.".