Lester George Hornby (Massachusetts, 1882 - 1956), Cape Ann School etching on paper print, titled "In Gloucester Harbor - 1919" in pencil within lower-left margin, signed "L G Hornby" in pencil within the lower-right margin. Sight size 7" x 11" with matte 13" x 16" and as framed 14" x 17"
At a Philadelphia exhibit of color etchings in 1909 the critic called Hornby
"the foremost exponent of this branch of graphic art that America has
produced."
To learn more about this acclaimed artist, and to view four of his other prints held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, see here.
