Portrait of a Romanesque Capital
1946
Artist, American, 1887 - 1953
Printer, British, 1887 - 1967
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching in black on laid paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Liethauser in Honor of Frances Smyth)
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Dimensions
plate: 6.67 × 6.83 cm (2 5/8 × 2 11/16 in.)
sheet: 23.34 × 12.7 cm (9 3/16 × 5 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3131
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Catalogue Raisonné
Fletcher 1982, no. 397
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Leithauser, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1982
Fletcher, William Dolan. John Taylor Arms, A Man for All Time: The Artist and His Work. New Haven, CT: The Sign of the Arrow, 1982, pp. 250-251, no. 397.
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: ROMANESQUSE; lower right in plate: [artist's monogram]; lower leftin graphite: IV; lower right in graphite: John Taylor Arm 1946; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: Portrait Romanesque Capital A53000
Markings
stamped lower center in black ink: [the artist's monogram]
Wikidata ID
Q77009776