The Balcony
Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook
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The Balcony
193120th century
205 x 128 mm (8.1 x 5 in.)
John Taylor Arms, American, (1887–1953)
Alternative title:
Venetian Gateway
Object Type:
print
Medium and Support:
Etching on laid paper
State:
Third of three states
Print impression quality:
Excellent
Series:
from Italian Series
Edition:
Trial proof; 29; printed by Charles White (wt); plate etched as Frontispiece for the Limited Edition of "Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy" by Dorothy Noyes Arms
Marks:
Signed in pencil, lower right: “John Taylor Arms—1931”; inscribed in pencil, lower left: “Trial proof iii/iii”; inscribed, lower center: title; inscribed, lower right: “wt”; inscribed on verso, lower right: “B”
Provenance / Collectors' Marks:
John Taylor Arms (stamped; inscribed letter “B” denotes collection, per Fletcher, p. 12).
Bibliography:
Fletcher 237 trial proof iii/iii; Karen F. Beall, American Prints in the Library of Congress (1970) 20; Arms 239.
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist (hon. MA Wesleyan 1939), 1939
Accession Number:
1939.5.10
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]
- Gothic (Medieval)
Dimensions
- plate Dimensions: 205 x 128 mm (8.1 x 5 in.)
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Credit Caption
John Taylor Arms, American, (1887–1953) . The Balcony, 1931. From Italian Series. Etching on laid paper. Third of three states. plate : 205 x 128 mm (8.1 x 5 in.). Sheet : 301 x 210 mm (11.9 x 8.3 in.). DAC accession number 1939.5.10. Gift of the artist (hon. MA Wesleyan 1939), 1939. (photo: M. Cook) .