print
- Museum number
- 2004,0630.18
- Title
- Object: Amor Materno (Maternal Love)
- Description
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Woman embracing a baby, head and shoulders in a tondo, set above a shelf with roses. 1893
Etching with surface tone
- Production date
- 1893
- Dimensions
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Height: 331 millimetres
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Width: 227 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Martin Hopkinson, 'Italian Prints 1875-1975', BMP, 2007, no. 27:
This etching is dedicated to the wife of Conconi's close friend, the Ferrara painter and etcher, Giuseppe Mentessi (1857-1931). She and her child may well be the subject of this print. Conconi exhibited an impression at Il Permanente in 1895.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007 Jan.-May BM, 'Italian Prints 1875-1975', cat.27
- Acquisition date
- 2004
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired from an anonymously donated fund for modern Italian and Israeli works
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2004,0630.18
