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Benjamin Newton Messick

Blind Man, Shoeshine Boy, and Card player,

Description

Maker

  • Carl J. Winter
  • Benjamin Newton Messick

Title

Blind Man, Shoeshine Boy, and Card player

Medium

lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph

Techniques

  • lithograph

Supports

  • medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

41.9 x 34.3 cm (16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:signed in black crayon below image on right:Ben Messick; in pencil below image on right:PRINTED BY CARL J. WINTER. (CJW monogram)...#2In Plate--In LL:Ben Messick . 40

Marks: Watermark:FRANCE

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

84.198.449

About

Blind Man, Shoeshine Boy, and Card player

Whistler to Weidenaar

American Prints 1870-1950

Original--Recto:signed in black crayon below image on right:Ben Messick; in pencil below image on right:PRINTED BY CARL J. WINTER. (CJW monogram)...#2In Plate--In LL:Ben Messick . 40

Marks: Watermark:FRANCE

Projects & Publications

Publications

Whistler to Weidenaar

American Prints 1870-1950

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Early Modernism in America

February 24 - April 16, 1995

A Private Collection Goes Public

September 18 - November 8, 1987

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Blind Man, Shoeshine Boy, and Card player with the accession number of 84.198.449. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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