Portrait of the Artist

Robert Frederick Blum

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857–1903). Portrait of the Artist, 188[5?]; published 1891. Drypoint on cream-colored laid paper, sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 5/16 in. (34.9 x 26.2 cm) image: 7 13/16 x 5 13/16 in. (19.8 x 14.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Cincinnati Museum Association, 11.576. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Portrait of the Artist

Date

188[5?]; published 1891

Medium

Drypoint on cream-colored laid paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 5/16 in. (34.9 x 26.2 cm) image: 7 13/16 x 5 13/16 in. (19.8 x 14.8 cm)

Signatures

Signed left center: "BLUM / 188[5?]"

Inscriptions

Printed at center of sheet below image: 'ROBERT F. BLUM, / ETCHED BY HIMSELF FOR "THE STUDIO"' and at lower left of sheet: 'Supplement to / The Studio, December 5, 1891' Written on upper margin: "Rare print, W.J. Baer, plate lost"

Credit Line

Gift of the Cincinnati Museum Association

Accession Number

11.576

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