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The dijk bell

The dijk bell
 1892

Medium
etching
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Brigadier W.E. Clark, 1957
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
etching
Measurements
12.5 × 10.6 cm (image and plate) 20.9 × 15.1 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hardie 290 iii/iv; Strange 183 iii/iv
Edition
3rd of 4 states
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: 9 S (in shield) 2
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: When the fog on the Zuider Zee rolls low / The fishermen hear my voice and know / How to steer for the dyke / What else do they know of me these people? / At Amsterdam did I ring in a steeple? / In Seventeen hundred and odd? / Or sail in a ship on the sea? Ah me! / Just as much as of what there shall (there shall crossed out) is to be / Just so much do they know about me
inscribed in pencil l.c.: Frank Short to F. Goulding
Accession Number
1383.201-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Brigadier W.E. Clark, 1957
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Marines and Seascapes Utilitarian Objects
Subjects (specific)
aids to navigation bells (idiophones) dykes IJsselmeer (lake) inscriptions Netherlands (nation)

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