Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, drypoint, roulette, and aquatint with tonal wiping in black (main subject) and brown (margins) ink on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 28 x 38.8 cm (11 x 15 1/4 in.)
sheet: 35.7 x 46.3 cm (14 1/16 x 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.199.8
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bourcard/Goodfriend 1979, no. 156, State vi/viii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Helena Gunnarsson, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2005
The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005-2006, no. 36.
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, no. 156, , vi/viii.
Inscriptions
upper right in graphite: a [indecipherable] petit cache; lower left in plate: Clock Tower London; lower center in plate: Under Ground; lower right in graphite: Ret/Chlov. Pol. Brouge [indecipherable] Cl. Tauv. [indecipherable and crossed out]; lower right verso in graphite: P.A.C. #10853 Cl. Bas
Markings
Felix Buhot's studio stamp (Lugt 977)