First Snow (No. 1), c. 1914

Not on View

Medium

drypoint in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 8.57 × 8.89 cm (3 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.)

sheet: 19.05 × 15.56 cm (7 1/2 × 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

Seeber 1971, no. 61

Accession Number

2015.19.1113

Artists / Makers

George Elbert Burr (artist) American, 1859 - 1939

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: [artist's monogram]; lower left in graphite: George Elbert Burr; lower left edge in blue colored pencil by unknown hand: S.K. Rule; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 61 - FIRST SNOW D-P

Marks and Labels

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1971: Seeber, Louise Combes. George Elbert Burr, 1859-1939: Catalogue Raisonné and Guide to the Etched Works. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1971, p. 100, no. 61.