AMERICAN ART. Robert Rivers: Large 1999 Limited Edition Etching Printed in Colour Using Three Plates. Entitled "Elephant in Purple Garden". FRAMED Elephant in Purple Garden The print was exhibited and

The print was exhibited and sold in 1999 and the previous owner has been very fabulous in gathering lots of cuttings about the artwork and the artist - and these are all quite firmly attached to the backing board of the print frame

This is a part of a selection of rarer 1950s British tableware that I am listing

HISTORY: The Edinburgh and Leith Flint Glassworks was established in the 1860s at Leith Walk Glassworks and later at Norton Park in Edinburgh

George Donald took a set Rivers etchings with him on his return to Scotland showed them to Scottish printmakers

During the summer he worked as an animal trainer at an attraction called Jungle Larry’s in Sandusky

AMERICAN ART. Robert Rivers: Large 1999 Limited Edition Etching Printed in Colour Using Three Plates. Entitled "Elephant in Purple Garden". FRAMED Elephant in Purple Garden The print was exhibited andThis is a very interesting colour etching which was printed using three separate plates to give all the colours. Not many artists work in this way with etching. They were printed in Edinburgh. Robert Rivers is an American artist and printmaker. He was born at Guntersville, Alabama in 1950. He attended Auburn University where he excelled at sports and thought about becoming an American football coach. During the summer he worked as an animal trainer at