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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
The Devil's Back
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

The Devil's Back

Artist Kerr Eby (American, 1889-1946)
CultureAmerican
Date1939
MediumEtching and aquatint on wove paper
DimensionsOverall, Image: 10 × 15 in. (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
Overall, Sheet: 12 1/8 × 17 7/8 in. (30.8 × 45.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 14 × 19 in. (35.6 × 48.3 cm)
InscribedSigned in graphite below platemark, lower right: "Kerr Eby imp."
MarkingsWatermarked "[WHA]TMAN 1937 ENGLAND" along left edge, beginning in the lower left corner.
Credit LineGift of Mr. Henry H. Rennell
Object number54.22.4
Not on view
DescriptionAn etching depicting crashing waves.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Kerr Eby
1927
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Kerr Eby
1933
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Captured from a digital file.
William Trost Richards
ca. 1890s
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Captured from a digital file.
William Trost Richards
ca. 1890s
Color corrected by Ed Pollard-2017
Samuel L. Margolies
1944
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Doel Reed
1953
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Philip Daniel Platt
Before 1946