Fluctuat Nec Mergitur (Tossed but not Sunk)

1854

Charles Meryon

Artist, French, 1821 - 1868

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    steel-faced etched copper plate

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.5 × 16 cm (6 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.45.1050

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schneiderman 1990, no. 37

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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1924

  • Delteil, Loys and Harold J.L. Wright. Catalogue raisonne of the Etchings of Charles Meryon. New York: Winfred Porter Truesdell, 1924.

1990

  • Schneiderman, Richard S. The Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints by Charles Meryon. London: Garton & Co., 1990.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at upper center, on banner, in reverse: FLUCTUAT NEC MERGITUR; at lower center, in reverse: MDCCCLI-IV / C.M.; verso: none

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q63570971

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