The Writing Desk, 1915

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.08 × 17.62 cm (9 7/8 × 6 15/16 in.)

sheet: 31.75 × 24.45 cm (12 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 54

Accession Number

2015.19.1530

Artists / Makers

Childe Hassam (artist) American, 1859 - 1935

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

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

upper right in plate: Cos Cob / [the artist's monogram] / 1915; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp.; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: THE WRITING DESK; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 41 [circled]; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 43 3/4 [circled]

Marks and Labels

stamped lower 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

Exhibition History

2003: Portraits of Places: The Prints of Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003

2003: The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003-2004

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. 46-47, no. 54.