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CA-233 La Cathédrale de Rouen
Title in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: La Cathédrale de Rouen
Year: 1920
Number: 233
Size: 34.5 x 27.4 cm
States: 4
Title on Print: La Cathédrale de Rouen
Initials or Signature and Date in Plate:
Planned Edition: 100
Total Number of Impressions: 116
Numbers in Pencil:
One ‘’ Bibliothèque Nationale’’ Not numbered
One dedicated ‘’To mother with love from Carrie’’ not numbered
One dedicated ‘’To my dear Frank, from his affectionate wife’’ not numbered
One ‘’ Special print for the Topeka Art Society’’ not numbered.
One with signature crossed. Not numbered
Special print #5/7
Épreuve d’essai
4, 11, 18, 45, 49, 62, 89/100
Signatures in Pencil:
One not signed
One with signature crossed. Not numbered
Caroline Armington and Caroline H. Armington
Dedication:
‘’ Bibliothèque Nationale’’
‘’To mother with love from Carrie’’
‘’To my dear Frank, from his affectionate wife’’
‘’ Special print for the Topeka Art Society’’
Caroline Armington’s etching record book contains the following notes for this print:
1st state 2 prints
2nd 3
3rd 1
4th 9, 14, 12, 29, 9,
1 special print for Frank
Several marked Ep. d’état, soft Japanese paper
1 to 94 inclusive
No 1 to 100
One for Topeka Art Society c/o Mr H. G, xxxxxx
Bought by Mrs Charles F. Spenxxxx xxxx control building, 7th Kansas xxxx, Topeka, Kansas
Special print 1/7 to 7/7
Accepted by Mr. Henri Verne through Mr. Angoulvent
Plate presented Feb. 25, 1931 to The Chalcographie du Louvre
13 printed by the Louvre
Price in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: none.
Plate: The plate was donated to the Chalcographie du Louvre in February 1931.
The plate is still in the collection of the Chalcographie du Louvre. It has been steel plated.
The Chalcographie du Louvre is producing prints from this plate which are sold by the Louvre museum.
Collections:
PAMA
BnF
Musée du Louvre, Atelier de la Chalcographie du Louvre
Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada
New York Public Library
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
Smith College Museum of Art
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, Kansas
Exhibitions:
Etchings by Caroline Armington: December, 1929. Toronto: The Art Gallery of Toronto.
Publications:
Caroline and Frank Armington, Canadian Painter-Etchers in Paris (Braide & Parke-Taylor).
Comments:
One of the seven (7) Caroline Armington’s plates in the collection of the Chalcographie du Louvre (CA-219, 222, 226, 227, 233, 239 and 254).
In 1931, Paul-Jules Angoulvent was the Curator of the Chalcographie du Louvre (the museum’s copper-plate engraving department). While Henri Verne was the overall Director of National Museums, Angoulvent managed the department that specialized in the production and preservation of prints from original copper plates.
This plate (which has been steel plated) is still used today to produce contemporary prints sold through the Louvre's Boutique.
These prints (which are not numbered and not signed) should normally feature the distinctive Chalcographie du Louvre blind stamp (an embossed seal) in the margin, which distinguishes them from the limited editions Caroline prints.
This blind stamp has been mandatory since the 2nd Empire (1852). Nevertheless, we have found some prints without it.
These prints also have the following typed inscriptions printed at the bottom: CAROLINE ARMINGTON – CHALCOGRAPHIE DU LOUVRE – EAU FORTE ORIGINALE.
Steel-facing or steel plating involves a micro-thin layer of iron/steel applied
through electroplating. This makes the surface hard enough to withstand hundreds or even thousands of impressions without the copper wearing down.