"Pioneers Resting" by Eugene Higgins, Amer., (1874-1958) Engraving traces of brown water tape

traces of brown water tape at margin edges

Though this appears to be an aquatint and in fact was printed from an intaglio plate

6-5/16 x 9-3/8

glue stains & abraisions in the margins 1/2" outside image

and a small discrete compression to the surface at top right of image border

"Pioneers Resting" by Eugene Higgins, Amer., (1874-1958) Engraving traces of brown water tapeEtching, 1938, ed. 149, LC 164, 5 3 4 x 7 7 8, on cream wove paper, signed in pencil. The image is fine, but there are marginal issues. There is a very pale mat line, a small repaired puncture in the lower left margin and a short repaired tear at the right center margin edge. Higgins, who was called "The American Millet" for his many empathetic images of the rural and urban poor, summered in Old Lyme Ct for many years.