M10083: Old Lace

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M10083

People

Childe Hassam, American (Boston, MA 1859 - 1935 E. Hampton, NY)

Title

Old Lace

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1915

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/233055

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 17 x 17.4 cm (6 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: CH [in plate] , CH [in graphite]
• inscription: lower edge of plate, two inches in from right, black printer's ink, etched in plate, in artist's hand: Cos Cob / CH [in circle with half-moon shaped curve at bottom right) / 1915
• inscription: in margin below plate, directly below etched initials/date, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: CH (in circle with half-moon, as above) imp.
• inscription: top margin, black printer's ink, letterpress, English: [column of text 1.5 inches wide by 10.25 inches long; when etching held straight, column is on its side; when column held straight, left edge of plate forms top edge; text is Isaiah 23:16 - 25:4] ISAIAH. [centered at top of column] / 16 Take a harp, go about the / city, thou harlot that hast been / forgotten; make sweet melody, / sing many songs that thou mayest / be remembered. ... 4 For thou hast been a strength / to the poor, a strength to the needy / in his distress, a refuge from the / storm, a shadow from the heat, / when the blast of the terrible ones / is [ital.] a strom against [ital.] the wall. / 586
• inscription: verso, behind column of text on recto, black printer's ink, letterpress, English: [column same height and width as that on recto; Isaiah 22:10 - 23:15] CHAP. XXIII. [centered] / 10 And ye have numbered the / houses of Jerusalem, and the / houses ye have broken down to / fortify the wall. ... 15 And it shall come to pass in / that day, that Tyre shall be forgot- / ten seventy years, according to the / days of one king: after the end of / seventy years shall Tyre sing as a / harlot. / 74 585

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

C. 56

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of George J. Dyer

Accession Year

1941

Object Number

M10083

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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