"Diamond Merchant" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Aquatint before the monogrammed signature in

before the monogrammed signature in the plate upper right

A visit to her home is to walk straight into her prints

from the portfolio Paris Capital

titled and dated 1926 in the plate

"Diamond Merchant" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Aquatint before the monogrammed signature inLithograph, Ca. 1950's, Ed. unknown, 12 3 16 x 8 3 16, unsigned, on cream wove paper. As with her print "Treegob's Variety", Marian Lerer here explores the "stage and actors" on which the wheels of local commerce turn, and this diamond merchant may have been a local neighborhood fixture in Philadelphia observed by Lerer while growing up. Regardless, it is a striking image, devoid of comedic elements, with it's formidible, stoic subject, fixing us with