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Venus

National Gallery of Australia
Accession no: 80.4022
State: 1/2

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Jules Gerbeau (d. 1906), Paris. Otto Gerstenberg (1848-1935), Berlin. Charles C. Cunningham (1910-1979), Chicago. Acquired through Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara, CA, by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1980.  
Additional acq. no:108515  

 

Paper size:208 x 268 mm  
Plate mark size:152 x 226 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:'oatmeal'  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:Medium weight oatmeal wove paper with deckled right and lower edges.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:  
Print tone:  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler / 1859'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:see signature  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'JG' triangular stamp, lower right, in red ink on recto (Jules Gerbeau, Lugt 1166); female figure with initials 'OG' in brown ink on verso (Otto Gerstenberg, Lugt 2785); 'CCC' trefoil stamp on verso in brown ink (C.C. Cunningham).  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'K592'; lower right: '1st state' on recto, at lower centre: on verso, at lower centre: 'K59 1/11'; at lower right: 'viii'.  

 

Source of information:Museum records  
ID:K0590z01  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.