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Old Lace.

  • ARTIST: Childe Hassam

  • MEDIUM: Drypoint,

    DATE: 1915.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 6 7/8 x 6 7/8" (17.5 x 17.5 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: "A view of the bridge and Cos Cob inlet at low tide. The delicate pattern and tracery of the design suggested to Mr. Hassam the title, Old Lace. One of the most delicately bitten plates, technically, in the etched work of the world. In the foreground are several boats left dry by the receding tide. Back of the bridge, which crosses the composition, are a number of houses and many trees." - Royal Cortissoz, Catalogue of the etchings and drypoints of Childe Hassam, N. A.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed in pencil

  • CONDITION:

  • REFERENCE: Cortissoz & Clayton #56.