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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Reflections At Finchingfield
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Reflections At Finchingfield

Artist John Taylor Arms (American, 1887 - 1953)
CultureAmerican
Date1938
MediumEtching
DimensionsOverall, Plate: 7 1/8 x 17 3/8 in. (18.2 x 44.2 cm)
Overall: 11 1/8 x 18 13/16 in. (28.2 x 47.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
InscribedSigned in pencil lower right: "John Taylor Arms - 1938" below plate and same on plate lower right on bottom line of design. Lower left in pencil: "Trial proof III - A I". Lower left of paper: "I" and stamped in black within a cartouche "Collection E John Taylor Arms". In pencil thru center at bottom: "One of three proofs (Trials I, II, III) of the First State of the plate, before the strip at the bottom was trimmed off. These three trials were the only proofs pulled from the plate in this state". At right of this the artist's cypher and "WT". Lower right corner of paper: "wt -"; upper right corner: "316". Paper watermarked "J Whatman" backwards up margin and into print at left.
Credit LineBequest of Dorothy Noyes Arms
Object number55.28.92
Not on view
DescriptionEtching on laid paper. Etching #272; Plate #316. No. 2 of the "English Series".