Birmingham

Richard Blauvelt Coe

About 1935

  • Titles Birmingham (Proper)
  • Artist Richard Blauvelt Coe, American, 1904 - 1978
  • Medium etching and aquatint
  • Dimensions sheet: 10 9/16 × 12 7/16 in. (26.8 × 31.6 cm) plate: 7 15/16 × 8 1/2 in. (20.2 × 21.6 cm) mat: 14 × 16 in. (35.6 × 40.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Peter Crook McCall and Doy Leale McCall, III, AFI.142.2017
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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