Invitation card: A fancy-dress party at the artist's house.
Primary Artist
Charles Conder (1868–1909)
Title
Invitation card: A fancy-dress party at the artist's house.
Reference
Dodgson (1913), 36
Date made
1905
Place made
Europe, England, Greater London, London View on map Close map
Category
Print type
planographic
Technique
transfer-lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone
Matrix size
15.8 x 24.7 cm (printed image)
Support
brown cardboard
Support size
17.8 x 26.6 cm (sheet)
Edition information
Printed in black
Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production
Inscribed lower centre in black crayon, 'Mr & Mrs Gregory Hast'.
Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work
Inscribed verso upper centre, diagonal, in black pencil, 'Mount/ 14 3/4 x 10'. Inscribed verso of mount [now removed], 'Fancy dress party: Saturday 18th February 1905 at 9 o'clock. Artist's address: 91 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea'. Inscribed verso of mount (now removed) upper centre in blue ballpoint pen, 'probably not (cream slip?)/ dark grey? brown mount/ silver black frame?'. Inscribed verso of mount (now removed) centre diagonal in black pencil, 'M. CARTER [ CARTER underlined]'. Inscribed verso of mount (now removed) lower left diagonal in black pencil, 'R3545/ 649 291/2/ RUST M5/ 12/3/7[?]6 13 3/4 X 10 3/4/ N/POSS'.
Subject description
Decorative frame around a group of men and women in fancy dress costumes.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
75677
Accession number
80.2241
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 2, 1980/81 (1980-09-09)
Provenance
Collection Mr and Mrs Gregory Hast, London, England. Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Thirty Victoria Street, Potts Point, Sydney, 9 September 1980
Credit line
Purchased 1980
Country of context
Australia
Notes
Fancy dress party: Saturday 18th February 1905 at 9 o'clock. Artist's address: 91 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea Inscriptions: Inscribed reverse mount, now removed, u.c., blue ballpoint pen "probably not (cream slip?)/ dark grey? brown mount/ silver black frame?". Inscribed reverse mount, now removed, centre diagonal, pencil " M. CARTER [ CARTER underlined]". Inscribed reverse mount, now removed, l.l.- l.c. diagonal, pencil "R3545/ 649 291/2/ RUST M5/ 12/3/7[?]6 13 3/4 X 10 3/4/ N/POSS".
Creators
Conder, Charles. | (1868–1909) Australian | English | Male | artist
Last Updated
08 Jan 2013