Title in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: Quai Vert, Bruges / Quai Vert et le Pont du Cheval, Bruges

Year: 1908

Number: 8

Size: 17.4 x 12 cm

States: 2

Titles on Print:

State I: One not titled

State I: Two titled in pencil ‘’Quai Vert, Bruges’’

State I: One titled in pencil  ‘’Trial Plate, Quai Vert et le Pont du Cheval, Bruges’’

State II Titled in plate ‘’Quai Vert et le Pont du Cheval, Bruges’’

Initials or Signature in Plate:

08 CHA b.l.

Planned Edition: 100

Total Number of Impressions: 100

Numbers in Pencil:

1st state, not numbered, titled in pencil ‘’Quai Vert, Bruges’’

1st State 3/23, Titled in pencil ‘’Quai Vert, Bruges’’

State I: All other prints not numbered

State II: 2me état 13/15

State II: 8, 9, 29, 35, 66, 91, 97/100

Signatures in Pencil:

State I: One: Caroline H. Armington, others: Caroline H. Armington 08

State II: All: Caroline Armington

Dedication:

Caroline Armington’s etching record book contains the following notes for this print:

1913 papier Hollande  7 prints                                                                          

1st state   23 numbered 1 to 23/23                                                                                           

1922 title etched on plate Quai Vert et le Pont du Cheval                   

One for Frank not counted                                                                               

2nd state 1/15 to 15/15                                                                                                       

No 1 to 100            

Plate crossed, 1 print 1932.      

Price in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: 35 f

Plate:

Plate was crossed in 1932.

Collections:

Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium. (With a price of 35 fr.)

PAMA, Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France

Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada                                                         

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Exhibitions:

Salon des Artistes Français, Paris, France, 1909

Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, Spring Exhibition, April 1910. (with a price of $9)

Publications:

Caroline and Frank Armington, Canadian Painter-Etcher in Paris, Janet Braide and Nancy Parke-Taylor, Art Gallery of Peel, 1990.

Comments:

It is assumed that state II is that with the title etched in plate (CA-008-A1)

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