Four Boats
John Henry Twachtman, American, 1853 - 1902
about 1881-1885; print 1921
Etching on wove paper
17 impressions located (1 lifetime, 16 posthumous)
Plate: 4 1/8 × 4 15/16 in. (10.5 × 12.5 cm)
Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 3/16 in. (17.4 × 23.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.556
Printer
Peter Platt
Publisher
Frederick Keppel & Company, New York, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed (by the artist's son), in graphite, lower right margin: JHTper AT.; inscribed, in graphite, along lower edge of sheet, in different hand: Near Dordrecht; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, not in artist's hand: Twachtman.
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
M.W. Baskett, John Henry Twachtman, American Impressionist Painter as Printmaker: A Catalogue Reaisonne of His Prints, Bronxville, NY, 1999, p. 86-87, no. 13.
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