Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
1938
Artist, American, 1883 - 1966

Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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 Unpublished (Print Collector's Club, Alexandria, VA), 1950, no. 235.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