Marine: Souvenir of Medway, 1879

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, aquatint, and roulette on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 16.6 x 21.8 cm (6 9/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

sheet: 31.6 x 44.5 cm (12 7/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 153, State v-vi/vi

Accession Number

2012.92.17

Artists / Makers

Félix-Hilaire Buhot (artist) French, 1847 - 1898

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Rochester 1879 FB (in monogram); lower right on plate stamped in red: FB (Lugt 799); by later hand, lower right in graphite: 2; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 153; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 403458 - R / 54 FTC(?)

Provenance

The artist's family (Lugt 4244). (Christie's London, June 29, 1978, lot 204); (via P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Exhibition History

2005: The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 59.

Bibliography

1899: Bourcard, Gustave. Felix Buhot: catalogue descriptif de son oeuvre grave. Paris: H. Floury, 1899. Reprint. With additions and revisions by James Goodfriend. New York: Martin Goodfriend, 1979.