Portrait of a Romanesque Capital
1946
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View on museum website →Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 6.67 × 6.83 cm (2 5/8 × 2 11/16 in.) sheet: 23.34 × 12.7 cm (9 3/16 × 5 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Liethauser in Honor of Frances Smyth)
Accession Number
2015.19.3131
About the Artist
John Taylor Arms
John Taylor Arms (1887–1953) was one of America's foremost etchers of the twentieth century, renowned for his meticulous renderings of Gothic architecture. Born in Washington, D.C., he initially pursued law at Princeton University before transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a master's degree in architecture in 1912. He apprenticed as a draftsman and worked for...