The British School of Etching: Being a Lecture Delivered to the Print Collectors' Club by Martin Hardie ... on July 8th, 1921

1921

Frank Short

Associated Names
Frank Short

Artist, British, 1857 - 1945

Martin Hardie

Author, British, 1875 - 1952

This is a photograph of a book cover. The cover is of a book titled "The British School of Etching" authored by Martin Hardie R.E. The design is minimalist, printed on a beige or light brown textured surface. The title is centered at the top in capitalized, serif font. Below the title is an emblem consisting of a stylized letter "P" within a vertical rectangle. At the bottom, the author's name "MARTIN HARDIE R.E" is printed in a similar serif font. Additionally, in the bottom left corner, there is a small white label with handwritten characters "NE 2043 H3."
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with one etching

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    book: 25.2 × 19 × 1 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/2 × 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.143.1422

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hardie 1938-40, no. 362

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Hardie, Martin. The Etched and Engraved Work of Sir Frank Short, vol. 3. London: Print Collectors' Club, 1940, p. 59, no. 362.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Frank Short; in black ink on justification page: Martin Hardie

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