print
- Museum number
- 2012,7001.5
- Title
- Object: Delusione (Disappointment)
- Description
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Girl wearing hoop earring, seated in a landscape; a masked impression from a rectangular etched plate to obtain a circular composition with pencil indications on the silk to show artist-designated circular format. c.1897
Etching on cream silk.
- Production date
- 1897 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 310 millimetres
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Height: 355 millimetres (max size of silk)
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Width: 360 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Printed by the artist; this format on silk is apparently unique and is not recorded by Bianchi and Genex. The etching is an early state before the lunette outline was added.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2013, May-Sept, BM, 'Recent Acquisitions' (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by the donor from Mattia Jona for presentation to the BM
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2012,7001.5
