Stephen W. Parrish
Fishermen’s Houses – Cape Ann
1880
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Stephen W. Parrish
Fishermen’s Houses – Cape Ann
1880
Physical Qualities
Etching with open bite on silk, Sheet: 416 x 565 mm. (16 3/8 x 22 1/4 in.)
Image: 303 x 485 mm. (11 15/16 x 19 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.123
James L. Claghorn, sold to T. Harrison Garrett, 1885.
Bruhn, Thomas P., The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, 'American Etching: The 1880s,' Jan. 21-Mar. 10, 1985, no. 81, ill. p. 121. National Academy of Design, New York, 'New York Etching Club Exhibition,' 1882, no. 177. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 'First Annual Exhibition of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers,' Dec. 27, 1882-Feb. 3, 1883, no. 235. *Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 'The Garrett Collection of Prints: A Selection of Engravings, Etchings, Mezzotints,' 1892, no. 306.
O'Brien, Maureen C. and Patricia C.F. Mandel, Nineteenth Century American Etchings in the Collection of the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY: The Parrish Art Museum, 1987, no. 321. Keppel, Frederick, The Golden Age of Engraving, New York: Baker & Taylor, 1910, ill. before p. 79. Illustrated Catalogue of Etchings by American Artists for Sale by Frederick Keppel & Co., New York: De Vinne Press, n.d. (Signed artist's proofs on Japan paper $36), p. 55, ill. p. 53.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: Signed in plate, BL: 'Stephen Parrish'; LR in plate: '49' and below: 'Fishermen's Houses - Cape Ann.'; signed LR margin (pencil): 'Stephen Parrish'; BL Corner (pencil): '40400'; BR Corner, barely visible: Claghorn stamp- 'JL' inside 'C' inside 'INSPERATA FLORUIT'.
