The Lightning Arch that Sucks in the Water. A Pleasure Room Situated Partly in the River
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1770-1790
MediumHand-colored etching and engraving
DimensionsPlate: 11 1/2 × 12 3/16 inches (29.21 × 30.96 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Laurence Sickman
Object numberF88-48/7
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DescriptionLower left corner, rock with two cranes, bottom center, boat with rower and man holding end of net which extends to another boat, left margin, with two occupants. From tree-y rock, lower right corner, bridge to shore, center, where gateway, pavilion, and pedestrians in cleared area. Green slope, center right. Water and mountains in rear, where small town, left of center.Exhibition HistoryOccidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, no. 43.
Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, by May 8, 1988;
Bequest of Laurence Sickman to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1988.Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, p. 9.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 285, as The Lightning Arch that Sucks in the Water. A Pleasure Room Situated Partly in the River.
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