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CA-183 La Passerelle et le Trocadéro, Paris
Title in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: La Passerelle et le Trocadéro, Paris
Year: 1917
Number: 183
Size: 26.8 x 20.7 cm
States: 2
Title on Print: La Passerelle et le Trocadéro, Paris
Initials or Signature and Date in Plate: CHA 1917 c.r.
Planned Edition: 50
Total Number of Impressions: 58
Numbers in Pencil: 2, 3, 6, 7, 42/50
Signature in Pencil: Caroline Armington
Dedication:
Caroline Armington’s etching record book contains the following notes for this print:
1st state 3 prints
2nd 10, 13, 5,
No 1 to 23
7 marked state, very xxxxlopped?
Numbered 1 to 50
1 extra for Frank, not numbered
Plate crossed, initials & date
4 prints
Price in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: 65, 100 f
Plate: plate was crossed.
Collections:
PAMA
Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada
Exhibitions:
Grimsby Art Gallery, March-April 1993 Grimsby, Ontario, Exhibit and Sale, The Armingtons: Canadian Painter/Etchers in Paris; Frank Armington, Caroline Armington.
Publications:
Comments:
Caroline Armington reportedly sourced antique ledgers and paper from booksellers along Paris’s Left Bank to use for her etchings. This preference for historical materials is a hallmark of her practice; this specific print is executed on a ledger leaf dating to circa 1743.
The Généralité de Dijon stamps (often marked "G. de Dijon") were royal tax stamps used in 18th-century France to indicate that a legal document had been officially registered and the required tax paid to the crown (King Louis XV).
In the Ancien Régime, a "Généralité" was an administrative and tax district. Dijon was the seat of one such district, covering much of the Burgundy region.