
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 21.7 × 30.5 cm (8 9/16 × 12 in.)
sheet: 32.4 × 42.8 cm (12 3/4 × 16 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1946.21.313
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Catalogue Raisonné
Asplund 1920, no. 36, state ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Charles Sessler [1854-1935], Philadelphia, PA, 15 August, 1946; to Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1946.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1920
Asplund, Karl. Zorn's Engraved Work: Descriptive Catalogue. English ed. 2 vols. Stockholm: A.-B.H.Buckowskis Konsthandel, 1920.
Inscriptions
"Zorn" lower right composition, in plate, artist's hand. Not dated. "(Martin J. Wade, American lawyer, Member of Congress, b. at Burlington, Vt. 1861, since 1891 Professor of Law at Iowa. / "Lawyer Wade" A. 36. This plate etched in 1890, for Sir Ernest Cassel. (only 7 or 8 impressions.)" lower margin, graphite, unknown hand. "[illeg.] 31872" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "VPREM" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.
Markings
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).
Watermarks
None.
Wikidata ID
Q65067988