Undine Outside the Window
- Object:
Print
- Place of origin:
Great Britain (made)
- Date:
1909 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Rackham, Arthur, born 1867 - died 1939 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Colour half tone print on paper
- Museum number:
E.2969-1990
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case I, shelf 132, box i
Physical description
A print depicting a stylised illustration showing the water spirit Undine standing outside the window of a stone cottage. To her left is a fence on the other side of which is a stream. In the stream several mythical water creatures are visible looking towards Undine.
Place of Origin
Great Britain (made)
Date
1909 (made)
Artist/maker
Rackham, Arthur, born 1867 - died 1939 (artist)
Materials and Techniques
Colour half tone print on paper
Marks and inscriptions
'Arthur Rackham 09'
Signed and dated
'Red too strong. I don't like this as much as the earlier proof. I hope the difference is accidental, for the greener general tone of the other is right. This pinker one is not so good. The red here is killing the yellows & blues: I want it kept col. AR.'
Inscribed in pencil in the artist's hand
Dimensions
Height: 25.5 cm size of sheet, Width: 17.3 cm size of sheet
Descriptive line
Print by Arthur Rackham, trial proof for 'Undine Outside the Window', frontispiece to the novella Undine by Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué, colour half tone print, Great Britain, 1909
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Hamilton, James. Arthur Rackham : a life with illustration. London: Pavilion, 1990. 199pp, ill. ISBN 1851455310.
Materials
Paper; Printing ink
Techniques
Half tone
Categories
Prints; Drawings; Illustration; Books
Production Type
Artist's proof
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
