Floods (Inondation)

1894, Charles S. Ricketts (1866 - 1931)

wood engraving in black on Japan paper on wove paper, 43.6 cm x 60.3 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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Object data

Object number
p1081V2000
Dimensions
43.6 cm x 60.3 cm, 19.8 cm x 24.7 cm, 8.7 cm x 9.1 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Stein & Karshan 68, Boyer & Cate 68

Inscription/label

signature
CRicketts
blind embossing
ESTAMPE ORIGINALE by Charpentier, Alexandre-Louis-Marie, Lugt no. 819

Literature

  • with essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Phillip Dennis Cate, l'Estampe originale : artistic printmaking in France 1893-1895, 1991, no. 68
  • J.G.P. Delaney, Charles Ricketts : a biography, 1990, p. 91
  • Jacquelynn Baas, Richard S. Field, The artistic revival of the woodcut in France : 1850-1900, 1984, p. 104-105
  • by Donna M. Stein and Donald H. Karshan, L' Estampe Originale : a catalogue raisonné, 1970, p. 106-107, no. 68