Arnheim
Orville Houghton Peets · c. 1927 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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This print is based on the short story “The Domain of Arnheim” by Edgar Allan Poe, in which a man inherits a vast sum of money and builds an earthly paradise accessible by a long boat ride. This scene comes near the end of the story, when the voyager on the boat encounters a plateau covered in honeysuckle and towering trees. As the story discusses the meaning and experience of beauty, it is possible that this image is Peets’s vision of the picturesque. According to Peets’s entry card to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s 1928 May Show, this image is one part of a pair depicting “The Domain of Arnheim.”
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0
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Details
- Maker
- Orville Houghton Peets (American, 1884–1968)
- Date
- c. 1927
- Medium
- woodcut
- Dimensions
- Plate: 10.5 x 12.2 cm (4 1/8 x 4 13/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- America
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
