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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21534
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Tête-a-tête
Other Titles
Alternate Title: In the Digs
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1894
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253525

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching, drypoint, and burnishing printed with plate tone in black ink on tan wove paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 21.9 × 32.3 cm (8 5/8 × 12 11/16 in.)
sheet: 29.1 × 43.3 cm (11 7/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, below right corner of plate, graphite: E Munch / Forsøgstryk 1894
  • inscription: lower sheet edge at right corner, red crayon: [illegible, but apparently this is the inscription transcribed by Woll on an impression in a private collection] 1ste Tilstand 2 Dr]
  • inscription: sheet margin, lower left coerner, graphite: Sch 12 I
  • inscription: verso, written along the left edge as if the sheet were vertical with this the bottom edge, black crayon[?] : 3 // 10-35/II [with an erased inscription below]
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp with grapite numbering below, marked twice, behind design area and in margin:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / M21534 [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Woll a/b i/iii
Standard Reference Number
Woll 9, Schiefler 12 I

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lynn and Philip A. Straus, class of 1937
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
M21534
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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