Eugene Higgins

Inhabitants of an Archway
1909

An etching depicting a dark, cavernous space with a figure standing in the foreground to the right, and a lighter, distant scene visible through an archway where several smaller figures can be seen. The image is signed "Dwight, Eugene Higgins" in the bottom right corner and has a caption in script at the bottom left that reads "Il andait-tantôt à un auch way." The etching is mounted on a page of a book or album with a visible binding on the left edge.
An etching depicting a dark, cavernous space with a figure standing in the foreground to the right, and a lighter, distant scene visible through an archway where several smaller figures can be seen. The image is signed "Dwight, Eugene Higgins" in the bottom right corner and has a caption in script at the bottom left that reads "Il andait-tantôt à un auch way." The etching is mounted on a page of a book or album with a visible binding on the left edge.

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Date
1909

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching in bound portfolio

Dimensions
Sheet (Mount): 11 1/2 × 8 1/4in. (29.2 × 21 cm) Sheet (Print): 4 × 5 1/4in. (10.2 × 13.3 cm) Plate: 4 × 5 3/16in. (10.2 × 13.2 cm)

Accession number
31.951.12

Series
24 Etchings

Publication
Printed by Eugene Higgins

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Eugene Higgins
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