Mirror of Illusion, 1916

Not on View

Medium

drypoint with softground etching and roulette in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 16.19 × 21.59 cm (6 3/8 × 8 1/2 in.)

sheet: 23.81 × 29.85 cm (9 3/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Lasky Charitable Lead Trust)

Catalogue Raisonné

Czestochowski 1987, no. 31, ii/ii

Accession Number

2015.19.3274

Artists / Makers

Arthur B. Davies (artist) American, 1862 - 1928

Frank A. Nankivell (printer) American, born Australia, 1869 - 1959

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Frank A. Nankivell / printer; lower right in black ink: Arthur B. Davies; along the lower edge in graphite by unknown hand: Mirror of Illusions 2nd of the Two states ed 25 1920 St[not deciphered] 29[crossed out]; lower right in red and black ballpoint pen by unknown hand: 34 [circled]; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 4038D-C; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 29. Mirror of Illusion

Provenance

Moses Lasky, San Francisco, California; Lasky Charitable Lead Trust, New York, 2002; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Levine, Marshall

Bibliography

1987: Czestochowski, Joseph S. Arthur B. Davies: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987, pp. 99-100, no. 31, ii/ii.