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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;User 67, post: 5597, member: 67&quot;]These are not engravings, they are etchings. The windmill has water color applied. I would say the apple tree and windmill are the same artist, the clouds are the same and both have a definitive horizon line.</p><p><br /></p><p>Miniature etchings have a following and history of sorts. After Dürer, German artists of course were not gong to outdo his work, and instead some went for tiny etchings (often erotic).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Harlequin is dropping shoes (tied by shoe strings) on a high wire -another trend of the 1980s-90s? It does seem like some kind of illustration, but it might also be a made up legend about why we have so many shoes on phone wires.</p><p><br /></p><p>These tiny etchings were very popular in the 1980-90s and were often incorporated into <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=miniature+artist's+book+etching&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.google.com/search?q=miniature+artist's+book+etching&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch" rel="nofollow">miniature artist&#039;s books</a>. The fact that the artist would make 350 prints and print number 24 shows what looks like a weak image poorly wiped, is a little confusing. They probably were meant for art fairs and I have my doubts that the artist actually completed a run of 350 or 100, even if they intended to. Etchings over 75 quite frequently need touching up, (redrawn and etched again). If it were Picasso, fine, but art fair dude might have been deceiving himself about what the market could bear. But making some into books and others prints, perhaps there would be a market for them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I made quite a few tiny etchings this size back in the day, I kept my runs small. I drew the image using a sewing needle. But the thing I liked was they took little paper and I could ink and press six or eight plates at one run through the press, so It felt like I was whipping them out. There were some other artists renting the same print shop, and we all made tiny prints to trade. And vbrad is right, they all did well selling their prints for $10 and under.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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