"Rail Yards, Buffalo" by J. Andre Smith, Amer., (1880-1959) Rare toning to margin edges

toning to margin edges

dated & numbered in the plate

confined mostly to the outer margin edges

12-5/8 x 9-1/4

on cream wove paper with large side margins and a loss to the upper left corner

"Rail Yards, Buffalo" by J. Andre Smith, Amer., (1880-1959) Rare toning to margin edgesEtching, 1912, Ed. unknown, image 8 x 5 1 2, signed in pencil and inscribed "1st. proof", on thin cream wove similli vellum paper with small irregular side and bottom margins 1 4 3 8, top margin of 3 4 inches. a rapidly drawn and forcefully wrought image of the Buffalo rail yards with great economy and abandon in the rendering of the smoke wafting from the idling engines. The first proof from the plate.