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Façade of the west front of a cathedral (1925)

Charles Maresco Pearce

etching and drypoint on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Classification:

Print

Physical Object Description:

Façade of the West front of a Cathedral with rose window above an arched doorway with a triangular pediment flanked by two tall, narrow pinnacles below, two smaller doorways under round arches to either side and three rows of saints in niches in arched arcades either side of the rose, seen from a square with bollards, people and a car approaching from right; engraver's proof. 1925 Etching with drypoint and surface tone. Signed and dated in the image 'Maresco Pearce -25'; signed in pencil below the image by the engraver 'MarescoPearce'.

Technique:

Drypoint, Etching

Dimensions:

25 x 17.6 cm

Accession Number:

1930,0111.188

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1930

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1925-30; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1930

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Cathedrals

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