Old Chinatown, San Francisco, 1904

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.18 × 12.54 cm (5 3/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

sheet: 25.08 × 16.19 cm (9 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

Catalogue Raisonné

Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 95

Accession Number

2015.19.460

Artists / Makers

Childe Hassam (artist) American, 1859 - 1935

Peter J. Platt (printer) American, 1859 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: [the artist's monogram] / 1904; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Old Chinatown; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 619277 [crossed out] 88CHA; upper left in graphite by unknown hand: #25

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Hassam, Childe

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. 73, 75, no. 95.