Stone Tapestry - Detail of South Portal of Collegiate Church of San Isidore, Leon
Artist
John Taylor Arms
(American, 1887 - 1953)
CultureAmerican
Date1933
MediumEtching
DimensionsOverall, Plate: 11 1/8 x 3 3/16 in. (28.2 x 8.1 cm)
Overall: 18 x 7 1/8 in. (45.7 x 18.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (48.9 x 36.2 cm)
Overall: 18 x 7 1/8 in. (45.7 x 18.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (48.9 x 36.2 cm)
InscribedSigned lower right in pencil below plate: "John Taylor Arms - 1933". Lower left: "Trial proof IV I". Lower right in margin in pencil: "WT". Upper right corner of paper: "271". On plate below inscription: "J.T.A." Inscription: "Collegialis ecclesiae C Leonensis regi Isidoro Sancto dediatae meridiano de latere exacripta est baec imago C Anno Domini MLXLIX".
Credit LineBequest of Dorothy Noyes Arms
Object number55.28.103
On View
Not on viewLabel TextStone Tapestry-Detail of South Portal of Collegiate Church of San Isidore, Léon, 1933 Etching Bequest of Dorothy Noyes Arms 55.28.103 Here Arms highlights a section of the richly carved stone façade of the medieval church of San Isidore, in Léon, Spain. Exhibition HistoryExhibited Gallery H, December 1958. "An Eye for Architecture: the Etchings of John Taylor Arms," Kaufman Theatre Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, November 3, 2010 - July 24, 2011.
