2 ENGRAVINGS BY HENRY WILFRID JOSEPH THEOBALD DEVILLE RUE DAMIENS 1929 5 OF 35 H2519These 2 small engravings represent streets, one marked "rue Damiens" and bears the number 5/35, the other has no indications. They are signed H Deville for Henry Wilfrid Deville.Note that one of the protective tiles is broken.Note some scratches on the frame, stains in the margin.Sold as presented, we do not do any detail.Henry Wilfrid Deville ( 1871-1939) is a French architect and etcher who spent part of his career in the United States. Henri Wilfrid Joseph Théobald Deville was born on July 24, 1871 chemin du Pressoir-Chênaie in Chantenay-sur-Loire, which was then a town bordering Nantes. His parents are Wilfrid Théobald Deville, clerk, and Berthe Anne Duchemin, without profession, residing at no 4 boulevard Sébastopol in Nantes.He entered the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1893 in the class of architect Henri Deglane. He graduated in 18973, then DaPLG in 1900. In 1900, he was, among others, under the orders of Charles Meysson, in charge of the design of the gates of the monument of the children of the Rhône at the Parc de la Tête d'or in Lyon. On April 15, 1902, in Paris 14th arrondissement, he married Antonia Gabrielle Eugénie Cécille. Having had for classmates at the Beaux-Arts the Americans John Mead Howells (in) and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (in), they brought him to New York to work in their architectural firm, Howells & Stokes, on buildings In 1907, he met the American engraver Henry Winslow (1874-1951) 4 who introduced him to the technique of etching. Deville is strongly impressed by New York buildings, the perspectives that emerge from the city from Brooklyn and begins to draw and then engrave a significant amount of pieces. During a stay in Paris in 1908, he received advice from Auguste Lepère, who introduced him to the gallery owner Edmond Sagot, a great fan and dealer in prints. In addition, he meets in New York the engraver, from Nantes like him and friend of Lepère, Jean Émile Laboureur: the two men will remain linked. At the end of 1913, his work as an engraver began to be recognized in the United States: two important articles attest to this, in Harper's Magazine and the International Studio: the review prints six engravings which offer views of Manhattan in the 1910s. In April 1914, he exhibits thirty-eight etchings at the Brown & Co. Galleries (New York). For the state, please detail the photos. The photos are an integral part of the description Frame dimensions: Height: 27 cm Width: 15.5 cm Thickness : 1 cm Dimensions engravings (damiens): Height: 24.6 cm Width: 13 cm Dimensions frame: Height: 27.5 cm Width: 17.5 cm Thickness: 1 cm Dimensions engravings: Height: 25 cm Width: 15.3 cm I remain at your disposal for any questions.