Portsmouth Doorway

1916

Childe Hassam

Associated Names
Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

This print shows the front of a building viewed from a straight-on perspective. The focus is on a door bordered by decorative columns and with a small arch above it. There are windows above the door and on either side, as well as some steps below the door and low fences around it. At the top, leafy tree branches hang down. The print is created by thin crosshatched lines, giving the impression of light filtering through foliage, and the leaves cast shadows on the building and the ground below.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.97 × 11.43 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.6.47

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 104

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1989

  • Cortissoz, Royal, and the Leonard Clayton Gallery. Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of Childe Hassam, N.A.. San Francisco, California: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989, pp. 79, 81, no. 104.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp.

Wikidata ID

Q64954461

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