A beautiful American Barbizon landscape view by the great American etcher Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899) that dates from the heyday of the American Etching Revival. The print was executed by the Moran from a view near her home in East Hampton, New York and dates to the mid-1880s. It is titled "Twilight" and the same etching is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and numerous other institutions including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art: see last image in photo gallery.

The plate measures 3 x 5 1⁄2 inches, sheet size is approx. 5 1/2 x 7 inches and it is printed in black ink on wove paper. It is rendered in the intaglio techniques of etching, roulette, sandpaper, and scotchstone on paper. Aside from typical age toning, minor discoloration to margin and some marginal edge loss, it is in excellent condition. 

Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899)was born in Strathaven, Scotland and emigrated to the US as a small child. In the third quarter of the nineteeth century at the height of the Painter-Etcher Revival, Mary Moran earned a reputation as one of the foremost landscape etchers in the United States. Many of her etchings were made on location directly onto the copper plate. She finished about 70 landscape etchings that included scenes of England and Scotland as well as New Jersey, Long Island, Pennsylvania and Florida.

In 1862, she married the great American landscape painter, Thomas Moran. Mary learned to draw and paint in oil and watercolor from him and made her first etching in 1879. Soon she was exhibiting at the Pennsylvania Academy (1878-1889) and in New York at the National Academy of Design (1877-1896). Other exhibition venues were the Boston Art Club, Brooklyn Art Association, and the Women Etchers of America exhibition at the Union Club in New York. She died of typhoid fever in 1899 and was buried beside Goose Pond, a subject of many of her etchings, near her home in East Hampton.