Lawyer Wade, 1890

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Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.7 × 30.5 cm (8 9/16 × 12 in.)

sheet: 32.4 × 42.8 cm (12 3/4 × 16 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Asplund 1920, no. 36, state ii/ii

Accession Number

1946.21.313

Artists / Makers

Anders Zorn (artist) Swedish, 1860 - 1920

Image Use

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Inscription

"Zorn" lower right composition, in plate, artist's hand. Not dated. "(Martin J. Wade, American lawyer, Member of Congress, b. at Burlington, Vt. 1861, since 1891 Professor of Law at Iowa. / "Lawyer Wade" A. 36. This plate etched in 1890, for Sir Ernest Cassel. (only 7 or 8 impressions.)" lower margin, graphite, unknown hand. "[illeg.] 31872" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "VPREM" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Provenance

Charles Sessler [1854-1935], Philadelphia, PA, 15 August, 1946; to Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1946.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Sessler, Charles

Bibliography

1920: Asplund, Karl. Zorn's Engraved Work: Descriptive Catalogue. English ed. 2 vols. Stockholm: A.-B.H.Buckowskis Konsthandel, 1920.