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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Sketch Of New York Skyline
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Sketch Of New York Skyline

Artist John Taylor Arms (American, 1887 - 1953)
CultureAmerican
Date1921
MediumEtching
DimensionsOverall, Plate: 6 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. (15.6 x 10.5 cm)
Overall: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (28.2 x 20.6 cm)
InscribedSigned right below plate: "John Taylor Arms -1921"; left below plate: "7/75". Title lower left in margin. Left corner marginal edge: "J.T.A. 91"; lower right margin: "6-c.669". Paper watermarked upper left margin "F.J. Head & Co.".
Credit LineBequest of Dorothy Noyes Arms
Object number55.28.5
Not on view
DescriptionEtching on laid paper depicting the New York skyline. Demonstration Plate No. 6 - etched before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in April 1921. Etching #74; Plate #105. This is a duplicate of 54.51.81, and the drawing for this is 55.28.120.