Wood duck family

Wood duck family

Item Information

Title:
Wood duck family
Description:
For an earlier treatment of the motive see the unfinished "Wood Duck" (Ordeman #47).
Artist:
Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951
Name on Item:
Frank W. Benson
Date:
1915
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Drypoints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Frank W. Benson (1862-1951). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Ducks
Bodies of water
Grasses
Wood duck
Extent:
1 print : drypoint ; plate mark 15 x 20 cm
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Ordeman: 61
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Albert H. Wiggin from the collection formed by Sherburne Prescott
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Ordeman, John T. "Frank W. Benson's etchings, drypoints and lithographs, an illustrated and descriptive catalogue." Hickok-Bockus, 1994, Summit, New Jersey.
Notes (object):
Published state. There is much further work throughout the plate; the chief additions are the dark reflections in the foreground, the shore behind the drake, and the island in the distance at the left. Reproduced. Twenty-one proofs, of which twenty are signed and numbered, on Shogun paper. This plate was drawn with a diamond point and the bur failed when twenty one proofs had been printed.
Identifier:
18_16_000454
Barcode:
36666003904774