The "home sweet home" cottage, Easthampton

The "home sweet home" cottage, Easthampton

Item Information

Title:
The "home sweet home" cottage, Easthampton
Title (alt.):
The "home sweet home" cottage, Easthampton, no. 1
Description:
The gabled end of the famous old house covered with vines stands behind a fence, which is also covered with vines. In the foreground to the left a large elm-tree which casts its shadow over the roadway. This is where the author of the world-wide known lyric passed his boyhood--and this old house was the motif of the celebrated song. First sung in London a century ago.
Artist:
Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935
Name on Item:
CH imp
Date:
June 1921
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Childe Hassam (1859-1935). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Houses
Trees
Places:
New York > Suffolk (county) > East Hampton
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 26 x 31 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ft848z051
Terms of Use:
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Notes:
Title from Cortissoz catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title from Leonard Clayton Gallery catalogue raisonné.
Cortissoz: C. 174
Additional information accompanying item: Signed June C.H. 1921 in lower right corner. In this second state, the clouds in the upper right hand corner between the trees are taken out. Made from nature directly on the plate. Consequently the subject is reversed.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Albert H. Wiggin; January 1951
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Cortissoz, Royal. "Catalogue of the etchings and dry-points of Childe Hassam, N. A." Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, New York.
Leonard Clayton Gallery. "Handbook of the complete set of etchings and drypoints, with 25 illustrations, of Childe Hassam, N.A." The Leonard Clayton Gallery, Inc., 1933, New York.
Notes (object):
Second state.
Fine line etching. Play of shadows on old house where Thomas Paine passed his boyhood.
Identifier:
18_20_000051
Barcode:
36666003816879