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Identification and Creation

Object Number
64.2001
People
Robert Austin, British (Leicester, England 1895 - 1973 Burnham Overy Staithe, England)
Title
Brook Farm
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1932
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/169175

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 13 x 15 cm (5 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: R S A
  • inscription: lower center of plate margin, printer's ink, engraved, signed, in artist's hand: monogram signature: R S A
  • inscription: yes, lower margin, left and right, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: state, edition number, date: 3rd state 6 proofs Jan 28 - 1932 -
  • inscription: lower margin, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: artist's notes about state changes: Plate cut top & sides - / + initials R.S.A. touched up - / work on grass in foreground at left / & behind pig at extreme right - / shading inside barn. Cut in / large pig's back taken out. Stipples put / by[?] pig - Stipple on farthermost water / white patch on second willow from L filled / in - Nest added in fork of nearest / tree - Nests in trees in back made more[crossed out] / darker & more added
  • inscription: lower left, graphite, handwritten: estate inventory notes?: 4[crossed out] 3 6 pr[oofs?]
  • stamp: lower left corner, black ink, stamped: estate stamp?: R S A in simple ovoid cartouche
  • watermark: paper, compression: Britannia in crowned double circle

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of Robert Austin, 1973, sale through Fine Arts Society, 2001.
Fine Arts Society PLC, London, England.
Paul McCarron, New York, NY, agent of artist's estate's London agent, sale.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii
Standard Reference Number
C.D. 97

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Daniel Bell
Object Number
64.2001
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gordon Cooke, Drawings and Prints by Robert Austin, The Fine Art Society and Paul McCarron (London, 2001), p. 11, no. 45; repro. p. 44

Verification Level

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