Edward Harrison Compton, "A Small Pond in the Karkonosze Mountains," chromolithograph, 23x30 cm (image), on brown paper, signed "No. 1401." Inscribed at the bottom: E.H. Compton pinx.-Registered -Depose/Kleine Teisch/Published by Hanfstaengis’s successors in Berlin. The work is in its original mounting; on the reverse is a sticker from Curt Ehrentraut’s framing shop in Wrocław.
Edward Harrison Compton (1881–1960), a painter and draftsman, came from an English family settled in Bavaria. He studied under his father, the well-known landscape painter Theodore Compton, and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Compton traveled extensively throughout Europe, and the result of these journeys is a large body of landscapes depicting a wide variety of locations, from England to southern Italy. He exhibited frequently in Germany and the British Isles and was a member of the Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft und Teilnahme.
