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Asacus and Hesperia
1896
Frank Short (Artist) English, 1857-1945 Joseph Mallord William Turner (Artist) English, 1775-1851
Mezzotint printed in brown ink on wove paper
Plate: 8 1/4 × 11 3/8 inches (21 × 28.9 cm) Sheet: 10 1/4 × 13 1/4 inches (26 × 33.7 cm)
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Gift of C. Edmund Delbos
48.107
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Markings
Signed, in pencil within plate mark, lower right: Frank Short
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: F. Short sculp. after J. M. W. Turner R. A. 1896 Inscribed, center bottom margin: Aeacus and Hesperie
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1948-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Frank Short; after Joseph Mallord William Turner, Asacus and Hesperia, 1896, mezzotint printed in brown ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of C. Edmund Delbos, 48.107.
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