The Guiding Spirit

Arthur Bowen Davies, American, 1862 - 1928

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1918

Zinc plate drypoint and roulette on laid paper

22

Plate: 4 7/8 × 6 15/16 in. (12.4 × 17.6 cm)

Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 in. (23.2 × 33 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921

PR.954.20.123

Printer

Frederick J. Reynolds

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Arthur B. Davies; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: 27 [indistinct]; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: The Guiding Spirit; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: 20;

Publication History

Joseph S. Czestochowski, Arthur B. Davies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987, p. 116.

Provenance

Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.

Catalogue Raisonne

Price (1929): 33; Czestochowski (1987): 55

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