"Diamond Merchant" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Aquatint titled and dated 1926 in

titled and dated 1926 in the plate

Steve Wheeler

is best known as the inventor of Solar Plate Etching

There are two thin strips of masking tape at the ample top margin edge

Excited by an exhibit of French etchings at the 1893 World Colombian Exposition in Chicago

"Diamond Merchant" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Aquatint titled and dated 1926 inLithograph, Ca. 1950's, Ed. unknown, 12 3 16 x 8 3 16, unsigned, on cream wove paper. As with her print "Treegob's Variety", Marian Lerer here explores the "stage and actors" on which the wheels of local commerce turn, and this diamond merchant may have been a local neighborhood fixture in Philadelphia observed by Lerer while growing up. Regardless, it is a striking image, devoid of comedic elements, with it's formidible, stoic subject, fixing us with