Old Lace

1915

Childe Hassam

Associated Names
Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

The image shows a body of water with a small bridge and a village in the background. Two boats are floating on the water. The stone bridge crosses the water, with trees and houses in the village behind it. The artwork features detailed lines creating texture in the stonework, water, and trees. The color scheme is monochromatic, using various shades of black, white, and grey.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Addie Burr Clark

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.78 × 17.78 cm (7 × 7 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.9.72

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 56

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1963

  • American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 92.

1985

  • Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1989

  • Cortissoz, Royal, and the Leonard Clayton Gallery. Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of Childe Hassam, N.A.. San Francisco, California: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989, pp. 47, 51, no. 56.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp.

Wikidata ID

Q65071385

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