"Nurse with Candle" by Elisabeth Chase, Amer., (20th Century) Drawing mostly in the margins

mostly in the margins

a 1" repaired tear bottom margin center edge

Calame was the premiere Swiss master of landscape lithography in the 19th century

they are remarkable technical achievements

"Nurse with Candle" by Elisabeth Chase, Amer., (20th Century) Drawing mostly in the marginsWoodcut, ca. 1920's 40's, ed. unknown but probably small, 4 1 4 x 4 3 8, signed in pencil, on thin cream laid japan paper, tipped to a cream wove support sheet. Small spots of foxing or staining from wood pulp inclusions in ther paper, mostly in arch above cross at right in image. A small but iconic image of the nurse as caregiver and healer to the sick, by this as of yet sparsely documented graphic artist.