Framed & Signed Original Etching: “The Great Screen & Choir” by Albany E Howarth

As shown. See all photos. Belonged to my maternal grandparents. Index card filled out by my grandfather, circa 1966? They had it framed at Berendsen’s in Green Bay, WI. Artwork dated 1927.

~6lbs
28” x 20.5” x .75”

Unframed: 14” x 21”

“Albany E. Howarth ARE (1872–1936) was a painter, copperplate etcher and printmaker born in Durham, whose speciality was topographical Gothic architecture. His first job was working in the drawing offices of Armstrong Mitchell of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Armstrong Mitchell was the largest employer in the area, manufacturing armaments, ships, locomotives, automobiles and aircraft. He worked there for about four years but then began travelling extensively around England and the Continent. He worked for a while illustrating various papers and periodicals in the North of England. In 1909 he published a set of 12 etchings of Oxford University Colleges and followed this up in 1910 with a set of 7 etchings focusing on the Cambridge University Colleges.“