Eve, 1887

  • Charles Klackner, American
  • Anna Lea Merritt, American, 1844-1930

Etching printed in brown ink on wove paper

  • Image (no plate mark): 13 × 18 3/4 inches (33 × 47.6 cm) Sheet: 18 × 24 1/8 inches (45.7 × 61.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund

F78.40

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in pencil, lower left: Anna Lea Merritt

Stamped, in blue, lower corner: 3134

Inscribed, in plate, upper left: Copyright 1887. by C. Klackner, 17 E 17th St., N.Y. Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: 78137

1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Peet, Phyllis. American Women of the Etching Revival. Exh. cat., High Museum of Art. Atlanta, 1988, no. 82.

Anna Lea Merritt, Eve, 1887, etching printed in brown ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund, F78.40.