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CHILDE HASSAM
The Billboards, NewYork
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Etching and drypoint, 1896. 120x160 mm; 4
5
/
8
x6
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Signed with the
artist’s cypher and inscribed “imp” in pencil, lower right.A very good impression of this
scarce, early etching, with crisp plate edges.
This is one of Hassam’s earliest New York etchings, depicting a scene on Broadway
between 55th and 56th Streets. Cortissoz/Clayton 87.
[4,000/6,000]
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