"Nurse with Candle" by Elisabeth Chase, Amer., (20th Century) Drawing a 1" repaired tear bottom

a 1" repaired tear bottom margin center edge

in 1869 Greatorex was elected the first woman associate member of the National Academy of Design

typical long after both wars

Calame was the premiere Swiss master of landscape lithography in the 19th century

tape stain lower right margin corner

"Nurse with Candle" by Elisabeth Chase, Amer., (20th Century) Drawing a 1" repaired tear bottomWoodcut, ca. 1920's 40's, ed. unknown but probably small, 4 1 4 x 4 3 8, signed in pencil, on thin cream laid japan paper, tipped to a cream wove support sheet. Small spots of foxing or staining from wood pulp inclusions in ther paper, mostly in arch above cross at right in image. A small but iconic image of the nurse as caregiver and healer to the sick, by this as of yet sparsely documented graphic artist.