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Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook
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Mellah Cabaret
ca. 1926-192820th century
145 x 123 mm (5.7 x 4.8 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:
1987.26.12
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- cabarets - Use for cafÈlike facilities often with a dance floor or small stage and featuring entertainment generally of an improvisational, satirical, or topical nature.
- 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.]
- Orientalism - Characteristics of oriental art or culture appearing in Western practice. W
Dimensions
- plate Dimensions: 145 x 123 mm (5.7 x 4.8 in.)
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Credit Caption
Thomas Handforth, aka Thomas Schofield Handforth, American, (1897–1948) . Mellah Cabaret, ca. 1926-1928. Etching on various wove and laid papers for the group. plate : 145 x 123 mm (5.7 x 4.8 in.). DAC accession number 1987.26.12. Gift of the Handforth Estate, 1987. (photo: M. Cook) .