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Print (Engraving)
(Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos)
Asher Brown Durand, John Vanderlyn
1834-1835
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator/Artist/Maker
Asher Brown Durand (Engraver)
Place of Origin
New York; New York; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (wove)
Museum Object Number
1994.0037.002
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Special Fund for Collection Objects
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Object Number
1994.0037.002
Object Name
Print (Engraving)
Title
(Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos)
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator (Role)
Asher Brown Durand (Engraver); John Vanderlyn (Painter)
Place of Origin
New York; New York; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Date
1834-1835
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Location: Lower right
Inscription: A.B. Durand Aq.
Type: Inscription
Location: Lower left
Inscription: J. Vanderlyn p.\t
Mark/Signature: Yes
Subject(s)
- Mythological
- Landscape
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (wove)
Techniques
- Etched
- Engraved
- Line engraved
Dimensions (inches)
16.5 (H) x 22.9 (W) x 14.3 (Image H) x 17.7 (Image W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
42 (H) x 58.2 (W) x 36.4 (Image H) x 44.9 (Image W)
Measurement Notes
Plate W: 20.7 in. (52.7 cm). Trimmed within platemark at top.
Edition State
II
Edition Watermark
Unidentified with letters "BD"
Edition Notes
Proof. State II of VIII, with the figure not filled in and additional work in the background, but with the horizon line in the distance not yet etched. The final state was published by A.B. Durand, New York, Hodgson, Boys & Graves, London, and Rittner & Goussil in Paris, 1835, and was printed by A. King.
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Fennimore, Donald L., et al. 1994 Eye for Excellence: Masterworks from Winterthur.
• One from Winterthur series (1994.0037.001): p.129.Book: 1895 Catalogue of the Engraved Work of Asher B. Durand.
• See pp. 101-103, no.237.Book: 1971 A.B. Durand 1796-1886.
• See p. 50, no.30.Book: 1983 Asher B. Durand: An Engraver's and a Farmer's Art.
• See p.52-53, no.65.Book: Lubin, David M. 1994 Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America.
• See pp. 5, 18, 42-53.Book: Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover & Howat, John K. 2000 Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861.
• See pp. 188-225.Article: Craven, Wayne. 1971 Asher B. Durand's Career as an Engraver. American Art Journal. 3 (1)
• See pp. 39-57.Article: Fowble, E. McSherry. 1974 "Without a Blush: The Movement toward Acceptance of the Nude As an Art Form in American, 1800-1825,". Winterthur Portfolio. 9: 103-121.
• See esp. pp. 111-112.Article: Lubin, David M. 1989 "'Ariadne' and the Indians: Vanderlyn's Neoclassical Princess, Racial Seduction, and the Melodrama of Abandonment". Smithsonian Studies in American Art. 3 (2): 2-21.