Greniers indigènes et habitations à Akaroa, presqu'Ile de Banks, 1845 (Native Barns and Huts at Akaroa, Banks' Peninsula, 1845), 1865

Not on View

Medium

etching on green laid paper

Dimensions

image: 12 × 22.2 cm (4 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
plate: 14 × 23.7 cm (5 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)

sheet (irreg.): 20.5 × 31.8 cm (8 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 97, State i/vii

Accession Number

1946.21.145

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

Not signed. Not dated. "Trial proof" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "LD 70 undescribed [illeg.] 1st state" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "From the [illeg.] Niel + Thibaudeau collections" lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "B63" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "120" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Cortland F. Bishop collector's stamp) verso, purple stamped ink (Lugt 2770b).

Exhibition History

1955: The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.

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.