Plan du Combat de Sinope (Plan of the Battle of Sinope), 1853

Not on View

Medium

etching with watercolor additions on Van Gelder laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 18.3 × 26.3 cm (7 3/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

sheet: 26.6 × 36.3 cm (10 1/2 × 14 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 32, State i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.6207

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Auguste Delâtre (printer) French, 1822 - 1907

Image Use

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Inscription

"C. Meryon sculp" upper right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "A Delâtre Imp. Rue de la Bucherie no 6." lower right composition, in plate, artist's hand. Not dated. "See dedication at back" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "Mes souhaits de / Nouvel An / à Monsieur et Madame / Vildieu. / C. M." verso, upper left sheet, brown ink, artist's hand. "a84338" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "ox" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "32" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

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.