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1948

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Print, Twixt the Gloaming and the Mirk

This is a Print. It was created by Mary Nimmo Moran. It is dated 1883 and we acquired it in 1948. Its medium is etching and mezzotint, printed with plate tone in brown ink on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was bequest of Miss Ruth B. Moran. It is credited Bequest of Ruth B. Moran.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 19.5 × 29.3 cm (7 11/16 × 11 9/16 in.) Sheet: 32.4 × 44.4 cm (12 3/4 × 17 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: Sweden handmade

It is signed

Signed in plate, lower left: M. NIMMO MORAN / 1883; signed in margin, in graphite, below: M. Nimmo Moran / Signed by T. Moran

It is inscribed

Inscribed in margin, in graphite, lower left corner: Twixt the gloaming and the mirk

Cite this object as

Print, Twixt the Gloaming and the Mirk; Mary Nimmo Moran (1842 – 1899); USA; etching and mezzotint, printed with plate tone in brown ink on paper; Platemark: 19.5 × 29.3 cm (7 11/16 × 11 9/16 in.) Sheet: 32.4 × 44.4 cm (12 3/4 × 17 1/2 in.); Bequest of Ruth B. Moran; 1948-71-9

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