
Etching. A depiction of the head and upper torso of the artist, summarily etched. The background is blank but there is foul biting throughout the plate.
The tip of the nose has been covered with horizontal hatching, and several curved lines of definition have been added to the clothing. Parallel horizontal lines, scored in drypoint, have been added to the left background and above the right shoulder, and vertically oriented marks and squiggling have been added in the upper right quadrant.
The background has been covered with a dense layer of regular etched cross-hatching. The tip of the nose has been burnished, and modelled with short oblique parallel strokes. Some oblique hatching has been burnished from the centre left area of the face. Hatched shading has been added to the face, and new, loosely drawn etched lines now appear on the clothing. There are three variant impressions of this state.
- Catalogue Number
- E.017
- Title and Date
- Self portrait
1990–91
- Description of Featured Image
- The head and upper torso of the artist, against a cross-hatched background.
- Where Made
- Dunmoochin, Cottles Bridge
- Medium Category and Technique
- Intaglio Print: Etching, foul biting, drypoint and burnishing on copper
- Support
- Wove paper. Identified papers: BFK Rives paper with watermark: ‘BFK RIVES’.
- Dimensions
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Image size: 100 x 85 mm
Matrix size: 102 x 87 mm - Artist’s Record Number
- RAE.13 (1990, 1991)
- Printer(s) and Workshop(s)
- All impressions printed by Rick Amor in his Dunmoochin studio, Cottles Bridge.
- Summary Edition Information
- Four states. No edition.
- Collections
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne: three state impressions, numbered 1 through 3, all dated 1990; one state impression, numbered 4, dated 1991; AP, dated 1991.
- Comment
E.017 was etched on the verso of the copper plate on which cat. no. E.016 was made, and is the second of three small etched self portraits begun in early 1990. The third of these works is cat. no. E.018.
- Keywords
- Self portrait
- URL
- https://catalogue.rickamor.com.au/works/intaglio/self-portrait-5/
Record last updated 15/02/2021