Terms and conditions of use
The sea monster
(c. 1498)
- Medium
- engraving
- Measurements
- 24.8 × 18.8 cm (image) 25.0 × 19.1 cm (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Bartsch 71
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) l.c.: AD (monogram)
dry-stamp l.c.: R.D (in oval) (Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesni, Lugt 2200)
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.l.c.: 71
inscribed in pen and brown ink on reverse u.c.: No. 8(?)
stamped in blue ink on reverse l.c.: (bird with outstretched wings within circle) (Rolf Leopold von Retberg; Lugt 2822)
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c. in H. Wright's hand: -R. L. von Retberg
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: T. D. Barlow
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: GA.
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: B.71
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.c.: N. G. Victoria - Accession Number
- 3483-4
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1956
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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High Crown With Flourish
- Meder 20a, Briquet 4911 (found in documents dated 1492 in Linz, Austria, 1495 in Bamberg, Germany, 1496 in Innsbruck, Austria, 1496-1502 in Frankfurt, Germany, 1497 in Marburg, Germany, 1498 in Erfurt, Germany and 1502 in Hochstadt, Germany)
- Completeness
- partial
- Chain Line Interval
- 33-35 mm
- Laid Line Frequency
- 12-13 per cm
- Placement and spacing of wires
- 141 x 8 [27 I ?] x ?
- Wire Side
- verso
- Radiograph taken from
- verso
