Artist: Frederick Garrison Hall (American, 1879 - 1946).
Title: Old house in Vicenza.
Signed, Titled, and inscribed in plate in pencil: Old house in Vicenza; Fred. G. Hall; inventory number.
Dimensions: Platemark 8 3/8 x 6 3/8. Sheet 12 1/2" x 9 3/4".
Edition of sixty. ( Frederick Garrison Hall: etchings, bookplates, designs BY ELTON WAYLAND HALL. BOSTON, BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1972).
Date: 1920.
Materials and Techniques: etching on cream wove paper.
Watermark: PCo in the oval.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Good. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Catalog Raisonne: Frederick Garrison Hall: etchings, bookplates, designs BY ELTON WAYLAND HALL. BOSTON, BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1972. No. 13.
Museums and Libraries: Boston Public Library; THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART 1923.135.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: American School XX C.
Note: The little plate "Old House in Vicenza," the gem of the collection, calls for special mention. This work, the most successful among collectors, was awarded the Nathan I. Bijur Prize by the Brooklyn Society of Etchers in 1920." (THE FIFTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE BROOKLYN SOCIETY OF ETCHERS).
There are depictions of American soldiers and military transport passing along Vicenza's street. Among the Americans who fought on this front was the young Ernest Hemingway. His novel "A Farewell to Arms" takes place in a hospital 20 miles from Vicenza.