Building a Ship in the Graving Docks

Building a Ship in the Graving Docks, 1919

  • Vernon Howe Bailey, American, 1874-1953

Lithograph printed in black ink on japan paper

  • Image: 17 1/2 × 22 7/8 inches (44.5 × 58.1 cm) Sheet: 17 7/8 × 22 7/8 inches (45.4 × 58.1 cm)

Gift of John Russell

19.15

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Industry
  • Construction
  • Lithography
  • Japanese paper
  • Ink
  • Shipyard
  • Crane
  • Lithograph
  • Ship
  • United states
  • Ashtabula

Details

Signed and dated, on stone, lower right: Vernon Howe Bailey | Ashtabula, 19

Watermark: leaf device

Inscribed, on stone, lower left: Building a ship in the graving dock.

Mr. John Russell

1919-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Vernon Howe Bailey, Building a Ship in the Graving Docks, 1919, lithograph printed in black ink on japan paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John Russell, 19.15.

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