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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25921
People
Frank Short, British (1857 - 1945)
Title
When the Weary Moon Was on the Wane. Dort
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1894
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/70224

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Burnished aquatint printed on vellum, with touches of black wash or chalk
Technique
Aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 17.7 x 25.1 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Frank Short
  • inscription: lower margin, below left corner of plate, graphite, hand written, signed, in artist's hand: signature: Frank Short
  • collector's mark: lower left corner of sheet, red ink, stamped: collector's stamp of J. P. Heseltine (L. 1508): j:p:H:

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Postle Heseltine (L. 1508), Collector, Sotheby's London, 3-5 June 1935, 1935. Heseltine died in 1929, but the estate sale of his prints was not held until 1935. It is presumed that this print was sold not in the Sotheby's print sale held during Heseltine's lifetime, because Lugt specifies that his mark #1507 was applied by Sotheby's to those prints, and #1508 to the ones that Heseltine kept. The posthumous sale catalog, lot no. 64, lists a print by Short, "Moonrise on the Bure" (S. 324), a mezzotint on vellum. That is a different title and a mysterious catalog number, since the Strange catalog of Short's works does not rise above the 200s, but the description fits the print exactly, and so this is probably that lot, which sold for 15s.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
S. 175, H. 115

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Jakob Rosenberg Fund
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
M25921
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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