An Umbrian Street - a.k.a. Assisi, In the City of St. Francis; An Assisi Street

 

John Taylor Arms

  1887 - 1953 (biography)

1925  

etching 

10 1/4 x 5 3/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

150 

dated 1925 in pencil after the signature 

Fletcher 168; Italian Series #2; Arms 170; LOC 499 

ivory laid with Hand Made watermark 

published 

commissioned by The Northshore Arts Association, Gloucester, Mass., March 1925; the plate was cancelled in May 1925 

MEJA109 

$300.00 

Assisi is a well-preserved medieval town located in the Umbria region of Italy. It is noted for being the birthplace of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi. In his etching, John Taylor Arms elected to create a street scene with the central focus being the medieval, stone bell tower with a cross atop its triangular sloped roof.