Redheads
Item Information
- Title:
- Redheads
- Artist:
- Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951
- Name on Item:
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Frank W. Benson
- Date:
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1917
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Drypoints
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Frank W. Benson (1862-1951). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Ducks
Flying
Redhead (Bird)
- Extent:
- 1 print : drypoint ; plate mark 15 x 20 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/1v53kr01f
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Ordeman: 127
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Albert H. Wiggin from the collection formed by Sherburne Prescott
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
- Notes (citation):
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Ordeman, John T. "Frank W. Benson's etchings, drypoints and lithographs, an illustrated and descriptive catalogue." Hickok-Bockus, 1994, Summit, New Jersey.
- Notes (object):
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Third published state. There is further drypoint on the bodies of the birds. Note especially on the duck at the right, at the juncture of the right wing and body, and on the back, fine lines from left to right defining the contours; on the tip of the left wing of the duck at the right, lines with bur slanting from left to right; on the feathers of the right wing of this duck, near the body, lines with bur slanting from right to left; on the left wing of the central duck, heavy regular lines slanting from left to right; on the tips of the feathers nearest the body of the right wing of the central duck, lines slanting from right to left; on the topmost duck, fine closely laid vertical lines darkening the body and horizontal lines defining the back. Forty proofs, signed and numbered, from 41 to 80, on white Normandy Vellum and Shogun paper.
- Identifier:
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18_16_000450
- Barcode:
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36666003904816
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