Michael Paul Roche
The Washington Monument
1926
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Michael Paul Roche
The Washington Monument
1926
Physical Qualities
Etching with bitten tone, Sheet: 385 × 448 mm. (15 3/16 × 17 5/8 in.)
Plate: 283 × 334 mm. (11 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Arthur J. Gutman, Baltimore
Object Number
1999.29
Removed label: 'The / WASHINGTON / MONUMENT / MT. VERNON PLACE FROM ST. PAUL STREET / by / M. PAUL ROCHE / THIS was the first / monument erected in / the United States to / the memory of / George Washington. / LIMITED TO 250 COPIES / c1927 BALTIMORE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE.'
Arthur J. Gutman, Baltimore
Beall, Karen F., American Prints in the Library of Congress: A Catalog of the Collection, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 422 no. 11.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: BL in plate: 'Roche '27'; signed LR margin (graphite): 'M Paul Roche'.
