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Frank Short
The dijk bell 1892
etching
12.5 × 10.6 cm (image and plate) 20.9 × 15.1 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Brigadier W.E. Clark, 1957
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The dijk bell
1892
Medium
etching
Measurements
12.5 × 10.6 cm (image and plate) 20.9 × 15.1 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Brigadier W.E. Clark, 1957
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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
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Subjects (general)
Marines and Seascapes Utilitarian Objects
Subjects (specific)
aids to navigation bells (idiophones) dykes IJsselmeer (lake) inscriptions Netherlands (nation)