Terms and conditions of use
The artist's mother: head and bust, three-quarters right
1628
- Medium
- etching
- Measurements
- 6.6 × 6.4 cm (plate) 11.3 × 10.2 cm (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Bartsch 354; Hind 1 ii/ii; White & Boon 354 ii/ii; NHD 5 ii/iv
- Edition
- 2nd of 4 states
- Inscription
- printed in ink u.r.: RHL 1628
- Accession Number
- p.185.4-1
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1891
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
Watermarks
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- Watermark Form
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Arms of Württemberg
- Originally, the Arms of Württemberg depicts three deer antlers alone and in the late fifteenth century the Arms were quartered. The Arms of Württemberg watermark shows these quarters within a shield: the original three deer antlers in the upper left quarter; a diamond pattern, representing the County of Teck in the upper right; fish (or barbs) representing the county of Mömpelgard (today known as Montbéliard) in the lower right; and an eagle with a standard, and a imperial flag, representing the city Ludwigsburg in the lower left quarter.
- Watermark and variant description
- Arms of Württemberg - variant B'.a.b. Crowned shield quartered with the arms of the Duchy of Württemberg: upper left quadrant shows three deer antlers; upper right quadrant shows diamonds; lower left quadrant shows an eagle with a standard; lower right quadrant shows two fish. Initial LB below. Chain line through the centre of the watermark.
- Additional notes
- Initials LB may possibly stand for Léonard Binniger of Montbéliard, a patron of the Belchamp papermaking mill operating along the Doubs River in Eastern France between (1613-1643) .
- Related watermarks in the NGV collection
- See the Crest of Württemberg watermark in The Adoration of the Magi by Albrecht Dürer.
- Closely related watermark references
- Briquet 1179 (1598) and 1180 (1602); Churchill 275 (1620 manuscript); Heawood 482 (1633, Holland, Schieland); Similar wm in Ash and Fletcher 1998, 62; Meder 188 (Württemberg coat of arms with monogram pendant, 1580-90).
- Completeness
- partial
- Chain Line Interval
- 22-25 mm
- Laid Line Frequency
- 11-12 per cm
- Placement and spacing of wires
- ? x 17 [10|7] x 15
- Wire Side
- verso
- Radiograph taken from
- verso
