The Letter, 1937

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Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.4 × 10.2 cm (5 1/4 × 4 in.)

sheet: 24 × 23.7 cm (9 7/16 × 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift from Clare Calder and her sister Rachel Austin

Catalogue Raisonné

Fine Art Society 2001, no. 119

Accession Number

2012.5.20

Artists / Makers

Robert Austin (artist) British, 1895 - 1973

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Inscription

lower center in plate: RSA; lower left in graphite: 4th state 2 proofs 8 / Aug 38 / chair put in / R. H. and added to. / Marks on stairs lightened / Touches on hair, on table, / on candlestick, on envelope / on woman's hands; upper left verso in ink by unknown hand: 4

Provenance

Rachel Austin and Clare Calder (the artist's daughters); acquired 2012 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Calder, Clare

Bibliography

2001: Drawings and Prints by Robert Sargent Austin, with a Complete Catalog of His Prints. London: Fine Art Society, 2001, no. 119.