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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M14426
People
John Taylor Arms, American (Washington, DC 1887 - 1953 New York, New York)
Title
The Clock Tower, Dinan
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: French Church Series #33
Original Language Title: La Tour d'Horloge, Dinan [in catalogue]; La Tour de l'Horloge, Dinan [inscription on print]
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1932
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253424

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 22.8 x 9.2 cm (9 x 3 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: John Taylor Arms - 1932
  • inscription: lower left edge of plate, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: inscription: To dearest "Pen", with my love / John Taylor Arms - 1932 [second line is indented to beginning of "Pen"]
  • inscription: lower edge of plate, beginning about 3/5 the way between left and right edges, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: signature: John Taylor Arms - 1932 [this signature is separate from the one below inscription to "Pen"]
  • inscription: lower left edge of paper, 2.6 cm from edge, graphite, handwritten: title: La Tour de l'Horloge, Dinan
  • inscription: lower right edge of paper, graphite, handwritten: inscription: sp [?] [the second character looks like a p with an accender as high as the decender]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Penelope B. Noyes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, March 21, 1966.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
F. 246

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Penelope B. Noyes
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
M14426
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
printer:
John Taylor Arms -- 1st State Proof
Charles S. White -- 2nd State Proofs -- i-ii/II
David Strang -- 2nd State Proofs -- iii-iv/II
David Strang -- 2nd State -- Edition 124

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