For generations our family has had in their possession a large unnamed print signed E.C. Rost 1891.

Recently, a listing of work by E.C. Rost was found:--

National Academy of Design Exhibition Record - 1861 - 1900

ROST, Ernest C.

1884 Address: 229 West 13th Street.

473. Evening. 200.00.

1885 Address: 229 West 13th Street.

323.The Woods in November. 200-00.

377. Night-fall. 350.00.

1886 Address: 229 West 13th Street.

67. Souvenir of Fontainebleau. 80.00.

37 Early Autumn. 75.00.

80. Night-fall. 150-00.

552. A Glimpse of the Connecticut. 1,200.00

1887 Address: 139 West 55 th Street.

38. When golden leaves against a blue sky play. 300.00.

Checking further in D. M Stauffer's American Engravers etc. 1907 and M. F

Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters etc 1926 revealed the following:

Rost, Christian

Engraver. Born in Germany. He studied in Paris and in London, and in the latter city he made the drawings and engraved on wood for a work describing the exhibits at the London World's Fair of 1850. It is not known when Mr Rost came to the U.S., but he was engraving very good portraits and subject plates in line in New York in 1860. In 1865, he was in the employ of George E. Perrine, and at a later date he was employed by the American Bank Note Co. He died in 1905 at Mount Vernon, NY.

But are Christian Rost and E.C. Rost the same person?