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Untitled (Shipwrecked figures, Plate from Vol. 2 of Calame's 'Essais de gravure a l'eau forte')
Untitled (Shipwrecked figures, Plate from Vol. 2 of Calame's 'Essais de gravure a l'eau forte')

Untitled (Shipwrecked figures, Plate from Vol. 2 of Calame's 'Essais de gravure a l'eau forte')

Artist Alexandre Calame Swiss, 1810 - 1864
Date1840
MediumEtching and rouletting on chine collée
DimensionsPlate mark: 4 3/8 x 3 1/8 in. (11.1x 7.9cm)
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (36.8 x 28.6 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineBequest to The Murray Collection in memory of Terry A. Murray
Object number2011.8.3
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InscribedEtched in the plate along the right edge of the image border : "A Calame pinx et aqui forti Geneve 1840" Verso, LL, in pencil script a small "B" probably the same hand as on .125 and .127.
DescriptionSeascape with three shipwrecked figures on a rock. One figure kneels with both arms upraised as a large wave looms to the right. A spar from the wreck appears to the left of the rock. A cliff on the left creates a backdrop.

Albert Pinkham Ryder/Blake/Turner-esqueProvenanceCollection of Jane S. Murray; by bequest to The Hyde Collection, 2009.