Helmick Howard (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Howard Helmick (illustrator). 11pp story, printed in double columns, illustrated with 3 drawings, including 1 full-page plate, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLI, No. 4, February, 1891. Serial appearance from the Southern author. In plastic report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Howard Helmick, F. L. M. Pape (illustrator). 19pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 10 drawings by Helmick, including 5 full-page plates, and a single drawing by Pape, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLVII, No. 2, December, 1893. Eastern Shore, Chesapeake. From the opening paragraph, "In Hans Christian Andersen's story, the exalted Counselor Knapp of Copenhagen puts on "the galoshes of happiness," and steps out into the middle ages. The average American of today, who abides serenely in the safer obscurity of private station, can do his spiriting as gently by buying a ticket for the Eastern Shore on the steamboat dock in Baltimore, and taking a hypnotic excursion to Choptank River on a moonlight night in October." Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Howard Helmick, A. Castaigne (illustrator). 18pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 7 drawings, including 5 full-page plates, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLIX, #2, December, 1894. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. W. Taber, J. O. Davidson, Howard Helmick (illustrator). 17pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 14 drawings and 3 full-page plates, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, No. 4, August, 1890. Whaling off New Bedford and Nantucket. Illustrations include the carved stern of Old Leonidas at New Bedford, an old whaler at sea, three views of ships around New Bedford, a deck scene of Gamming, the crier in the rig, a race toward a whale in longboats, lancing a whale, a lost boat, a longboat in pursuit, a view of sounding, a longboat smashed in two by a whale, whalers trying out, etc. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

No Binding. Condition: VG. Howard Helmick / J. H. E. Whitney, Engraver (illustrator). Sized 6.5 x 9.5 inches, engraved by Whitney after Helmick, crease noted at lower margin, else very clean and bright, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLIV, No. 1, May, 1892.

Condition: Good. Original cover, etched frontispiece and one portrait of 6. Laid paper. 43 x 30.5 cm. sheet size. Marginal tears and foxing. Very rare. Included are:-Title-page: a man etching seated beneath a tree, and two roundels with heads of Carlyle1912,0212.3: and - Young man seated in profile to right, three quarter length; hat balanced on knee, legs crossed; after Tait .References: B.M Museum number 1913,0212.2-8; O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (25.a-f) ; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 5048968.Howard Helmick was born in Ohio, in 1840 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He moved to Paris in 1854 and trained alongside Henry Baconat the École des Beaux-Artsin Paris, devoting himself to genre painting. He moved to London in 1872 and from there regularly visited Ireland. Best known for his Irish genre studies, and paintings of Irish households, Helmick was the foremost artist among a small set of painters who focused on rural Irish culture, and was hailed by contempo rary critics as an American Wilkie. Throughout his time in London, he regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers, the Society of British Artists, and the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham. He also exhibited work at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Manchester City Art Gallery. He was elected a member of Society of British Artists in 1879, and the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers in 1881. He died at home, in Georgetown, Washington D.C., in 1907. .Provenance : From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit.