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My Back Yard, 1890. Etching on paper.
Etching on paper · Image/plate: 19.8 × 15.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- My Back Yard
- Artist
- Julian Alden Weir American, 1852-1919
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 19.8 × 15.3 cm (7 13/16 × 6 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 19.2 cm (12 11/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1852–1919
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.