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Amiens – Historic Print

Amiens, 1926 — historic print
Amiens, 1926. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few cathedrals in France rise as high as the one at Amiens, and this 1926 etching makes its great Gothic mass the whole subject. It is number 8 in a series of French churches, and this impression is an artist's proof, signed and dated on the plate and again in pencil, a mark that the printmaker kept for trial impressions before an edition was pulled. Made a few years after the First World War, when fighting had swept through the Somme region, the sheet also reflects the wider interest of American artists in medieval French architecture during the 1920s. The Library of Congress received it as a gift.

Created / published1926
Medium1 print : etching ; 27.4 x 25.1 cm.
Notes[His French churches series, no. 8] Arms, 183. Artist's proof. Signed and dated on plate and in pencil; initials DNA in lower right. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 13. Gift.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,388 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131249

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