Graveyard Chess II
Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook
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Graveyard Chess II
192820th century
148 x 125 mm (5.8 x 4.9 in.)
Thomas Handforth, aka Thomas Schofield Handforth, American, (1897–1948)
Object Type:
print
Medium and Support:
Etching on various wove and laid papers for the group
Print impression quality:
Excellent
Marks:
Signed in pencil, lower right: “Thomas Handforth”; signed in plate
Marks:
Watermark:
Group: various RIVES or Arches
Provenance / Collectors' Marks:
Artist’s collection
Bibliography:
Karen F. Beall, American Prints in the Library of Congress (1970), 9.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Handforth Estate, 1987
Accession Number:
1987.26.2
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- cemeteries
- death
- genre - Use for pictorial representations, which may be in various media, that represent scenes or events from everyday life; usually used with another term such as "paintings" or "prints." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
- graves - Excavations in the earth used for burial; for constructions raised over or around burial sites, use "tombs." [April 1993 related term added.]
Dimensions
- plate Dimensions: 148 x 125 mm (5.8 x 4.9 in.)
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Credit Caption
Thomas Handforth, aka Thomas Schofield Handforth, American, (1897–1948) . Graveyard Chess II, 1928. Etching on various wove and laid papers for the group. plate : 148 x 125 mm (5.8 x 4.9 in.). DAC accession number 1987.26.2. Gift of the Handforth Estate, 1987. (photo: M. Cook) .
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