
Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 18.42 × 15.24 cm (7 1/4 × 6 in.)
sheet: 26.19 × 22.54 cm (10 5/16 × 8 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.1433
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Catalogue Raisonné
Fowler 1950, undescribed
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: Walter Tittle / Bishopsbourne / Kent, 1924; lower right in black ink: Walter Tittle; lower left margin in graphite by unknown hand: 36.00; lower right margin in graphite by unknown hand: 314; lower edge in graphite: My first d.p. of Conrad, done at Oswalds, Bishopsbourne / Frontispiece to Conrad letters to Curle, model for the figurehead of the ship Joseph Conrad by Brude Rogers / In numerous public collections + reproduced widely
Markings
stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]
Watermarks
MILLBOURN / BRITISH HAND MADE PURE RAG [castle]
Wikidata ID
Q77013082