Railway Sheds, Marseilles

1937

Muirhead Bone

Associated Names
Muirhead Bone

Artist, Scottish, 1876 - 1953

The image is taken from an elevated position, looking down at a busy train yard with adjacent buildings. The horizon captures more city structures and hints of mountains in the distance with a monochromatic color palette of brown and sepia. Intricate brushstrokes provide texture to the scene showing a railway bordered by buildings and an embankment wall, extending towards city structures and ships' masts in the background.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.4 x 31.8 cm (10 x 12 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 34.8 x 42.4 cm (13 11/16 x 16 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.116.23

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dodgson & Wright c. 1948, no. 473, x/x

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1948

  • Dodgson, Campbell, and Harold J. Wright. Etchings and Dry-Points by Muirhead Bone, 1898-1939. London: unpublished manuscript (Obach & Co.; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.), c. 1948, no. 473, x/x.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: M Bone; lower right in graphite: Muirhead Bone; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: Railway Sheds, Marseilles; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: A 59534

Wikidata ID

Q74891735

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