Beagle Dog: after Painting by Edwin Megargee: Authentic 1953 Book Illustration

Description

1953
Edwin Megargee
Color Book Plate
Beagles
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This is a genuine 1953
full-page
book illustration by Edwin Megargee. It appeared in the first edition of a dog encyclopedia published that year. The illustration is signed in the plate by Megargee. (A print is said to be signed in the plate if the artist's signature is incorporated into the matrix and so appears as part of the printed image.) There is text on the reverse.
This is NOT a recent copy or reproduction.
A
laser-printed facsimile of the copyright information
as it appears in the 1953 book from which this illustration was removed will be included,
on a peel-off, self-adhesive sheet
.
Purchasers who frame their pictures frequently affix that copyright statement to the back of the frame.
Illustration size is about 8" x 11"
About the artist:
Edwin Megargee
Edwin Megargee was an animal painter, illustrator, and etcher. He was born in 1883 in Mt. Airy , Pennsylvania. Throughout his educational career, he attended Georgetown University from 1899 to 1900, Drexel Institute in Philadelphia from 1900 to 1904, and finally the Art Students League from 1904 to 1905.
He was a breeder and painter of gun dogs and wrote and illustrated several illustrated dog dictionaries.
CONDITION
: Excellent: No tears or marks. Printed on medium weight paper--text on the reverse.
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