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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
U.S.S. Radnor, U.S.S. Quick And U.S.S. Mervine In Wet Basin
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

U.S.S. Radnor, U.S.S. Quick And U.S.S. Mervine In Wet Basin

Artist John Taylor Arms (American, 1887 - 1953)
CultureAmerican
Date1943
MediumEtching, pape, aquatint
DimensionsOverall, Plate: 10 x 17 7/16 in. (25.4 x 44.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 17 x 32 1/2 in. (43.2 x 82.6 cm)
InscribedSigned "John Taylor Arms 1943" in pencil in margin just below plate mark at left of crane reflection. "III" in pencil in margin at left bottom corner of plate-mark. Plate no. 388. Etching no. 344.
Credit LineGift of U.S. Navy through Lt. Comdr. E.M. Davis, III, U.S.N.R.
Object number49.53.1
Not on view
DescriptionEtching with aquatint of three Navy ships. Shows all or parts of the three ships at a Navy Yard dock. Part of a dry dock caisson is at far right.

Exhibition HistoryNorth Gallery, Summer 1959.