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Mary Cassatt

Telling Fortunes,

Description

Maker

  • Mary Cassatt

Title

Telling Fortunes

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Soft-ground etching and aquatint on beige-colored,
  • smooth wove paper

Techniques

  • Soft-ground etching and aquatint on beige-colored,
  • smooth wove paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 13.3 x 21.3 cm (5 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, in graphite, at LR, below plate: Mary Cassatt. Inscribed, in graphite, at LL: E1167 E296 ab [illeg.]. Inscribed, in graphite, on verso, at LL: 11-; at LR: C37; at center: 13 1/4 x 15 1/2. At LL of plate mark, on verso: mark of Robert Hartshorne (L.2215b).

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Esther Mauran Acquisitions Fund and Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2017.13.1

About

Telling Fortunes

Altered States

Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris
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Signed, in graphite, at LR, below plate: Mary Cassatt. Inscribed, in graphite, at LL: E1167 E296 ab [illeg.]. Inscribed, in graphite, on verso, at LL: 11-; at LR: C37; at center: 13 1/4 x 15 1/2. At LL of plate mark, on verso: mark of Robert Hartshorne (L.2215b).

Projects & Publications

Publications

Altered States

Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Altered States

June 30 - December 3, 2017

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Telling Fortunes with the accession number of 2017.13.1. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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