Goose Pond, East Hampton
- Description
- Mary Nimmo Moran chose The Goose Pond, Easthampton as her diploma work when the recently formed Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in London elected her a Fellow in 1881, the only woman among the sixty-five original Fellows. When she exhibited four etchings in the Society’s show, the New York Herald commented on a review in a London paper, ‘“Mrs. Moran’s work is so masculine [sic] that the Daily News critic takes it for that of a man.”’ Her vigorous etching style has been frequently noted along with her preference for working outdoors directly on a prepared plate, before the subject.
- The print shows a pond, now known as Town Pond, and Gardiner’s Mill, which still stands in the town of East Hampton, where the Morans spent many summers. Landscape and in particular the landscape around East Hampton was the subject of many of Mary Nimmo Moran’s etchings.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- print
- Object Type
- Etching
- Date made
- 1881
- graphic artist
- Moran, Mary Nimmo
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- plate: 18 cm x 22.5 cm; 7 1/16 in x 8 7/8 in
- sheet: 31 cm x 38.5 cm; 12 3/16 in x 15 3/16 in
- ID Number
- GA*14566
- catalog number
- 14566
- accession number
- 94830
- subject
- Energy & Power
- Art
- Communications
- Landscape, Rural
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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