Dartmouth Etchings

A new set of Dartmouth College etchings by Louis Orr were published on September 10 and may now be obtained through Dartmouth College Publications, Hanover, N. H. The new series contains eight main plates, a frontispiece and an index, and sells for $100. Only one hundred sets are available, since the plates have been destroyed, and in no case will the etchings be sold individually. The series is contained in an attractive port- folio with an etched title and Dartmouth seal, and measures 13½ inches by 18 inches.

The new set duplicates two of the subjects which Mr. Orr used in his Dartmouth etchings of 1928, but in each case the study is quite different. A novel treatment of Dartmouth Row from the east is presented in the 1935 series, and the new study of Dick's House deals in detail with the entrance and north wing. The other main plates show Reed Hall, the doorway of Streeter Hall, Tuck School, Baker Library, Sanborn English House, and Carpenter Art Building. The index contains a large etching of the stadium arch of Memorial Field, while the frontispiece shows an imaginary vista of Baker Library through an archway, which Mr. Orr selected as suggestive of the arch motif in recent Dartmouth architecture, and two small remarques of Webster Cottage and Stell Hall.

The new plates are larger than those in the 1928 series, but at the same time they have the same fineness of detail, light and shade, and Dartmouth atmosphere that sold out the first set in such short order. Mr. Orr spent an entire summer making the sketches for his new series, and gave the greater part of the succeeding winter to etching the ten plates. The etching showing the east facade of Dartmouth Row is reproduced on the cover of this issue of the MAGAZINE, and Mr. Orr's study of Tuck School is shown on this page.