The Chimneys, Portsmouth
Childe Hassam, American, 1859 - 1935
1915
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 6 1/16 × 9 1/16 in. (15.4 × 23 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 3/8 in. (20.9 × 26.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.229
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left: Portsmouth / CH / 1915; signed and inscribed, in graphite, lower right margin: CH imp; inscribed in graphite, on reverse: EM chimneys; watermark: MBM
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
P. Eliasoph, Handbook of the Complete Set of Etchings and Drypoints with 25 Illustrations of Childe Hassam, N.A. of the American Academy of Fine Arts and Letters, New York: The Leonard Clayton Gallery, Inc., 1933, p. 12, no. 16. R. Cortissoz, Catalogue
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