Une Chimère (A Chimera, from Miniature series 48 and Gargoyle series #14)
John Taylor Arms, American, 1887 - 1953
1947
Etching on laid paper
Edition of 201
Plate: 2 15/16 × 2 7/16 in. (7.5 × 6.2 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 4 3/4 in. (18.7 × 12 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Norman Williams, in memory of her grandson, Edwin Henry Parkhurst III, Class of 1957
PR.958.105
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, uppper left: 419; numbered, in graphite, lower left margin: III; signed and dated, in graphite, lower right margin: John Taylor Arms 1947; titled, in graphite, lower left : Une Chimère / Ep. de la collection d'artiste; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: A mon amie, Margot / Jean 5/2; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, upper left: 555/ 120; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, lower left: etching
Provenance
Margaret Bright Williams (1888-1984), Woodstock, Vermont, given to present collection, 1958 [in memory of her grandson, Edwin Henry Parkhurst III (1936-1954), Class of 1957].
Catalogue Raisonne
Fletcher 408; NYPL 419a
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