Octagon House Front Entrance, 1923

Not on View

Medium

wood engraving in black on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 15.4 × 12.7 cm (6 1/16 × 5 in.)

sheet: 27.31 × 18.26 cm (10 3/4 × 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the children of J.J. Lankes)

Catalogue Raisonné

Lankes 1958, no. 224

Accession Number

2015.19.3305

Artists / Makers

J. J. Lankes (artist) American, 1884 - 1960

J. B. Lankes (printer) American, 1915 - 2010

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Inscription

lower right in block: Lankes; lower left corner in black ink by unknown hand: PC1; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 224

text at bottom:
Printed from original wood cut by J. J. Lankes

Marks and Labels

stamped lower right in black ink: Del & Sculp:JJL:****:Imp:JBL / Reproduction Rights Reserved

Provenance

the artist, Durham, North Carolina; J. B. Lankes (the artist's son), Hampton, Virginia, 1960; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Lankes, J. B.

Bibliography

n.d.: Lankes, J.J. Woodcut Record. Unpublished (College of William and Mary Special Collection), p. 5, no. 224.