Title in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: La Rue St. Yves à Chartres

Year: 1926

Number: 376

Size: 30.3 × 18.8 cm

States: 6

Title on Print: La Rue Saint Yves à Chartres

Initials or Signature and Date in Plate: C. Armington 1926 l.r.

Planned Edition: 100

Total Number of Impressions: 127

Numbers in Pencil:

One Special print for "The Des Moines Association of Fine Arts." not numbered.

One to ‘’ Bibliothèque Nationale’’ not numbered

Épreuve d’essai, 2/3

Ep. d’essai, 3/3

5 eme etat 5/10

5me état, 6/10

4/5

1, 28, 56, 80, 88, 95/100

Signature in Pencil: Caroline Armington

Dedication:

Special print for "The Des Moines Association of Fine Arts." not numbered.

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

1st state 1 print destroyed

2nd state 1 print

3rd state 1 print

4th state 1 print

5th state 10, 1/10 to 10/10

6th 1 for Frank on old paper not counted

Ep. d’essai 5 on old paper

Ep.d’essai 3 on thick paper d’Arches

1 for Des Moines Assoc. of Fine Arts.

1 – Mrs. Cornelius Aloysius McGuire Jr. (Desmond? Louise F. Donohue), 120 Patterson Road, Dayton, O. Apr. 8, 31

1 for Margaret Bullwinkle Hollitacher

1 – Edith McCollum, 185 St. Clair Av.

1 – Mrs. Herbert Rowe Morris (Glory Huskins)

Numbered 1 to 100.

No. 55 Sold to Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer to present with the plate, which was not crossed, to a college for advanced students. The Principia, St. Louis Mo.

Mr. Howard xxxxx

Art collection started by Miss Megan

Mrs. Howard Brown's granddaughter

11 pts

Price in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: None

Plate: the plate was sold to Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer.

The plate is now in private Montreal collection.

Collections:

PAMA                                                                                              

BnF                                                                                                           

Des Moines Art Center

Glenbow Museum, Calgary

Exhibitions:

Etchings by Caroline Armington: December, 1929. Toronto: The Art Gallery of Toronto.(La Rue St. Yves, Chartres)

Publications:

Comments:

 

The ‘’adventure’’ of the plate. 

 

Caroline Armington recorded in her Etching Record Books that Print No 55/100 of this etching was sold to Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer to present with the plate, which was not crossed, to a college for advanced students. The Principia, St Louis.

The plate were purchased by Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer for donation to The Principia College in St. Louis.

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In 2019 Mrs. Melody Hauf-Belden, Principia Archivist, Special Collections Librarian was contacted about it and she answered that she could not find any trace of this donation and that, most likely, it was not made. This is despite the fact that she had found the records for the donation of some Japanese prints made by Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer.

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In 2019, Mrs. D. T. of Wildwood, MO found it in a large antique/thrift mall in St. Louis County and purchased it.

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In 2026 she sold it to a Montreal collector.

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