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Soldier Being Fitted for Armor

Achille Isidore Gilbert, Frederic, Lord Leighton, and others

Soldier Being Fitted for Armor

French, 1880

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Soldier Being Fitted for Armor

French, 1880

Physical Qualities Etching on chine collé, 390 × 310 mm. (15 3/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.15520
After the fresco by Leighton titled "The Industrial Arts as Applied to War" in the Victoria and Albert museum.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris

Inscribed: RECTO: in plate, at UR: "Published London April 1st. 1881 by The Bristish and Foreign Artists Association"; in plate, at LL: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1881 by Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington"; in graphite, at LL: [indecipherable]; in graphite, at LR: "A. Gilbert"

Markings: CM: blind stamp "ON" [not in Lugt]

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