An Army Smithy in the Marne Valley, 1918

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Medium

etching in black on Arches laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.94 × 23.97 cm (7 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

sheet: 24.77 × 31.43 cm (9 3/4 × 12 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

Falk 1984, no. 203

Accession Number

2015.19.1236

Artists / Makers

Lester George Hornby (artist) American, 1882 - 1956

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Inscription

lower right in plate: L.G. Hornby / An Army Smithy / Marne, 1918; lower left in graphite: An Army Smithy in the Marne Valley, 1918.; lower center in graphite: 60 imps; lower right in graphite: L.G. Hornby.; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: 50

Marks and Labels

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1984: Falk, Peter Hastings. Lester G. Hornby: Painter-Etcher, Including a Checklist of the Artist's Etchings. Madison, Connecticut: P. Hastings Falk Fine Art Research, 1984, p. 12, no. 203.