High Bridge (Paris)

 

Allen Lewis

  1873 - 1957 (biography)

c. 1895  

etching 

5 15/16 x 7 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower left center 

13 of 50  

inscribed "zinc etching" along lower sheet edge 

Wheaton 1178-018 

buff laid paper with partial watermark of "Truria Italy" 

published 

artist 

19475 

$250.00 

Lewis was influenced by Whistler while in Paris and the ghost-like figure in the lower right and the artist's initials incorporated into the image, also in the lower right, pay homage to his fellow American, with whom he exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1900.