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The dijk bell

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

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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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