print;
frontispiece;
book
- Museum number
- 1864,1008.270
- Title
- Object: Frontispice
- Description
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Frontispiece to 'Eaux-Fortes Modernes: Originales et Inédites', the second volume in a series produced by the Société des Aquafortistes; old bridge over stream with inscription regarding the publication, partly superimposed over distant landscape seen through arch, ducks on water (Paris: A Cadart & Luquet, Éditeurs). 1864
Etching
- Production date
- 1864
- Dimensions
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Height: 386 millimetres
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Width: 256 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a volume (550 x 375mm) for the second year of the Société des Aquafortistes, September 1863-August 1864, containing sixty prints by various artists including Martial, Manet, Jongkind and Bracquemond (Paris: A Cadart et Luquet, Éditeurs, 1864); with artists and titles at front, month by month, and introduction by Jules Janin; bound with marbled covers and green buckram spine; unknown edition.
Note that the plate numbering continues from the first volume, i.e. 61 onwards.
For biographies of the members and a list of their work with the Sociéte, see Janine Bailly-Herzberg, 'L'Eau-Forte de Peintre au Dix-Neuvième Siècle: La Société des Aquafortistes (1862-1867), Leonce Laget, Paris, 1972 (2 vols).
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Eaux-Fortes Modernes
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,1008.270