Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

1938

Walter Tittle

Artist, American, 1883 - 1966

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30.32 × 22.54 cm (11 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 42.39 × 32.54 cm (16 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1439

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fowler 1950, no. 235


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

1950

  • Fowler, Alfred, ed. A Check-List of Prints by Walter Tittle. Unpublished (Print Collector's Club, Alexandria, VA), 1950, no. 235.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Based on life sketch of 1923 / Walter Tittle 1938; lower right in graphite: Walter Tittle imp.; lower left margin in graphite: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes [underlined]; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: 319

Markings

stamped lower right verso in black ink (twice): F.B.B. [circled]

Watermarks

Riverstoke / ENGLAND

Wikidata ID

Q77012771


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