Cole, Timothy Lot n° 30

COLE, Timothy Collection of 60 wood engravings after the great masters. New York 1883-1900 60 rare wood engravings, various sizes, fine tracing paper (China paper) and gloss paper, all signed in the block. Mostly laid down on paper mount. Born in London, Timothy Cole (1852-1931) emigrated to the US with his family at the age of six. In 1875, he moved to New York City, finding work on the Century (then Scribners) magazine. Cole was associated with the magazine for 40 years as a leading craftsman of wood engraving. He immediately attracted attention by his unusual facility and his sympathetic interpretation of illustrations and pictures, and his publishers sent him abroad in 1883 to engrave a set of blocks after the old masters in the European galleries. Afterwards, he produced many prints after the great French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian artists. The lot consists of wood engravings after paintings by Rubens, Teniers, Ruisdael, Constable, J.L. David, Poussin, Vigée-Le-Brun, Ingres, El Greco, Velasquez, Gozzoli, Botticelli, Raphael, etc.