The Old House, Cos Cob

1915

Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

Peter J. Platt

Printer, American, 1859 - 1934

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.81 × 21.43 cm (5 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.46 × 26.67 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.464

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 53


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, New York; Mrs. Childe Hassam, New York, 1935; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1940; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1940

  • Etchings by Childe Hassam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1940

2003

  • Portraits of Places: The Prints of Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003

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. 45-46, no. 53.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Cos Cob / [the artist's monogram] / Oct. 27 / 1915; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp; lower left edge in graphite by unkonwn hand: The Old House, Cos Cob; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 17; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #27; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: NO

Wikidata ID

Q77011899


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