Untitled (River with cows; Plate 7 from Vol. 1 of Calame's 'Essais de gravure a l'eau forte')

Artist Alexandre Calame Swiss, 1810 - 1864

Date1838

MediumEtching on chine collée

DimensionsPlate mark: 4 5/16 x 5 15/16 in. (11 x 15.1 cm)
Sheet: 14 9/16 x 11 1/4 in. (37 x 28.6 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineBequest to The Murray Collection in memory of Terry A. Murray

Object number2011.8.4

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SignedLR, etched in the image area, artist's monogram in block form; block capital letter "A" inside the curve of a block capital "C" followed by a reversed block capital letter "F" (presumably for fecit).

InscribedLR, etched in the plate outside the image border: "Geneve 1838 No7". To the left of this there are some further marks on the sheet that may be lettering erased before the print was made, this same scumbled area appears on the print in the collection of the British Museum (1863,0725.528) http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1635418&partid=1&searchText=1863%2c0725.528&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1 [accessed 3/25/2010] Verson, LL, a small script "A" in pencil, by the same hand and in the same location as .125

DescriptionLandscape with with a right at the left, three cows drink from it while a small figure stands on the banking to the left. Two large trees on the right bank dominate the background with smaller trees and low hills beyond and to the left.
ProvenanceCollection of Jane S. Murray; by bequest to The Hyde Collection, 2009.