Title in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: The Old Tower, La Lisière

Year:  1930

Number: 481

Size:

States: not mentioned.

Title on Print: The Old Tower, La Lisière

Initials or Signature and Date in Plate: C. ARMINGTON 1930 l.r.

Planned Edition: not mentioned.

Total Number of Impressions: 262

Number in Pencil: not numbered

Signature in Pencil: Caroline Armington

Dedication:

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

For Mr. Albert N. Connet Jr. Barbbizon

262 prints for Mr. C.

Plate delivered with prints.

Price in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: none.

Plate: plate was delivered to Mr. Albert N. Connet in 1930.

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Comments:

This etching was printed on folded paper.

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Caroline Armington produced three etchings for Mr. and Mrs. Albert N. Connet (CA-452, CA-454 and CA-481).

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In 1930 Caroline Armington recorded in her Sales book: ‘’Mr. Albert N. Connet, The Old Tower, La Lisière, Plate 1000, 250 prints @ 3.750, Total 1750 f.’’

 

Albert N. Connett Jr. was a prominent American expatriate, investment banker, and social figure living in Paris during the interwar era.

Albert N. Connett, Jr. Born in Delight, Kansas, USA on 1886 to Albert N. Connett and Theodora Speir.

Albert N. Jr. married Louise Palmer Sherwood.

Connett Jr. moved to France following World War I. Throughout the 1920s and into the early 1930s, he lived in Paris while working as an executive officer for the Guaranty Trust Company of New York's Paris branch.

He and his wife, Louise Sherwood Hegeler, were prominent fixtures in the American expatriate community in France.

In 1932, his wife was elected as the 1st Vice-President of FAWCO (Federation of American Women's Clubs Overseas) during a historic convention in Berlin, representing the Paris club.

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