print;
frontispiece;
book
- Museum number
- 1866,1110.1355
- Title
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Object: Frontispice
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Series: Eaux-Fortes Modernes
- Description
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Frontispiece to 'Eaux-Fortes Modernes: Originales et Inédites', the fourth volume in a series produced by the Société des Aquafortistes; allegory of printmaking, with inscription regarding the volume in window, with printmaking equipment and bust (Paris: A Cadart & Luquet, Éditeurs). 1866
Etching
- Production date
- 1865
- Dimensions
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Height: 348 millimetres
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Width: 249 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a volume (553 x 370mm) for the fourth year of the Société des Aquafortistes, September 1865-August 1866, containing sixty prints by various artists including Delacroix, Jongkind, Daubigny and Corot (Paris: A Cadart et Luquet, Éditeurs, 1866); with artists and titles at front, month by month, and introduction by Castagnary; bound with marbled covers and green buckram spine; unknown edition.
Note that the plate numbering continues from the third volume, i.e.181 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
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,1110.1355
