This is an original etching by 19th Century artist and printmaker, Robert Swain Gifford. This beautiful and delicate etching depicts a landscape near the shore. The beautiful composition of this print frams a narow sand path between a small group of rocks and a hill with a medium- sized tree. In the middle of the path there’s a small figure of a man walking in the direction of the shore. The man is holding what appears to be a rifle or a musket for hunting. In the foreground we can see a body of water and a couple of small trees. This print is signed ‘R. Swain Gifford-79’ on the bottom left corner as part of the plate and titled ‘The Path to the Shore’ and signed ‘by R.S Gifford’ by the artist’s hand in pencil on the outer bottom edge of the plate. 
  
Robert Swain Gifford (1840 –1905) was an American landscape painter. He was influenced by the Barbizon school. He travelled and painted in Oregon and California, then left for Europe, where he visited Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain. Before returning to the U.S. he travelled to Morocco and Egypt. He was joined by fellow artists such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, and painted some subjects from those regions. Much of his work focuses on the landscapes of New England. He, along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools, helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. Some of his works hang in the most prominent galleries in the USA, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. He was a member of the Society of American Artists.
  
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 Appraisal Value: $3,000.00 
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