Coal Pockets at New Bedford, Mass.
Date1879
Artist
Robert Swain Gifford
(American painter, 1840–1905)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 6 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (17.5 × 12.4 cm)
sheet: 11 13/16 × 8 1/8 in. (30 × 20.6 cm)
sheet: 11 13/16 × 8 1/8 in. (30 × 20.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-478
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Label TextIn this etching of a coal storage tower near the harbor in Gifford's hometown, he treated his modern industrial subject like a ruin or a castle in a Romantic painting.
