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Grandmother I (II)
1884
202 x 126 mm
Three consecutive etchings depict the artist's grandmother. The watercolour of the same name "Mormor" from 1883 served as a model.
Catalogues:
Loys Delteil 18 »Mormor (La grand’mère de l’artiste) I«
Karl Asplund 17 »Grandmother II«
Hjert & Hjert 15 »Mormor II«
Sven Lidbeck 17 »Grossmutter II«
Watercolour
Anders Zorn,
Grandmother,
Watercolour 1883,
24 x 17 cm,
Zorn Collection Mora
Reassignment
The Swedish art historian Karl Asplund made a mistake when cataloguing the three plates, which was to be repeated in all subsequent publications.
The illustration he labelled "Grandmother I" in the 1920 catalogue actually shows the first state of the third and last plate "Grandmother III".
Loys Delteil published the correct classification in his 1909 catalogue. If one places the work catalogued by Asplund as "Grandmother I" over the second state of "Grandmother III" with a black background (coloured green here), it becomes clear that both impressions were printed from one and the same plate.
A print from the destroyed plate from Mora was used for the montage shown on the left.
Loys Delteil (1909)
D18 – Mormor I
D19 – Mormor II
D20 – Mormor III
Karl Asplund (1920)
A16 – Grandmother I
A17 – Grandmother II
A18 – Grandmother III