A Dog Fight in the Air, at Cunel

1918

Lester George Hornby

Artist, American, 1882 - 1956

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on Arches laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.84 × 24.77 cm (7 13/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 24.61 × 30.64 cm (9 11/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1239

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Falk 1984, no. 219

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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. 219.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: At Cunel / A "Dog Fight" in the Air / L.G. Hornby / Meuse-Argonne 1918; lower left in graphite: At Cunel.; lower right in graphite: L.G. Hornby

Markings

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

Watermarks

Arches (FRANCE) [partial]

Wikidata ID

Q77015123

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