Old Lace

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: 17.46 × 17.46 cm (6 7/8 × 6 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 23.81 × 23.02 cm (9 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.462

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 56


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. 47, 51, no. 56.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Cos Cob / [the artist's monogram] / 1915; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Old Lace; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: C108HM [crossed out] M103MCH [crossed out] 1013HA; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #27

Wikidata ID

Q77013460


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