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L'Île de la Cité, Paris

1926

Henry George Rushbury

(British, 1880–1968)
Culture
England, 20th century
Medium
drypoint
Measurements
Sheet: 43.5 x 56 cm (17 1/8 x 22 1/16 in.); Platemark: 29.9 x 42.5 cm (11 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John Bonebrake 2012.273
Catalogue raisonné
Rushbury, Ramos, Owen 53
State
state IV/IV
Edition
90
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Bonebrake first went to France in 1939 while an architecture student at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University). He won a scholarship to attend the summer art school in Fontainebleau, a town near Paris, where he made watercolors and etchings. Weekends, he traveled throughout the country, and he returned to France many times in later years, especially after his uncle married a Frenchwoman. Although he visited many other places, his print collection reflects his love of French culture.
A horizontal drypoint in black ink on beige paper depicts a city river beneath a pale sky. In the lower right, figures stand or sit along a stone walkway. An arched bridge spans the center behind a cluster of moored barges. To the left, spindly trees reach toward a dense horizon of buildings, their windows and tall chimneys detailed with fine, dark hatching, while thin horizontal lines convey the water's surface.

L'Île de la Cité, Paris

1926

Henry George Rushbury

(British, 1880–1968)
England, 20th century

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