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Castor
1927
Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs (Artist) English, 1876 - 1938 Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs (Printer) English, 1876 - 1938
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 5 1/2 × 4 3/4 inches (14 × 12.1 cm) Sheet: 9 1/8 × 7 5/8 inches (23.2 × 19.4 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg
F1983.143
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Markings
Signed in plate, lower right: F. L. G. In pencil, lower right: FL. Griggs
Inscribed in pencil, bottom left edge: 18.-26-.7 Lower right: Castor [ ]25966 In black ink below artist's mark, verso: 79 Dated, lower right: 1927
Artist's stamp in brown ink, verso (Lugt Suppl. 760a) Watermark: [partially obscured by right edge of image] MLO
Provenance
1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Comstock, Francis Adams. A Gothic Vision: F. L. Griggs and His Work. Boston, 1966, pp. 165-178, no. 39V (ill.).
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Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, Castor, 1927, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg, F1983.143.
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