First Love Letter
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
name: label: original artist
content: Knaus, Ludwig
label: graphic artist
content: Piton, Camille
notes: label: Description
content: Camille Piton made this etching to illustrate a catalog for an auction of works from the collection of J. C. Runkle, which was held in New York on March 8, 1883. Samuel P. Avery, art dealer and himself a collector, organized the sale and the catalog. The <I>New York Times</I> judged Piton’s effort as “handsomely etched.” Ludwig Knaus (1829–1910), the original artist of <I>First Love Letter</I>, was a German painter of sentimental genre scenes which were very popular in his day. Originally titled in German, his painting was known by its English title because it had been purchased by an American.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Wright, David G.. American Reproductive and Replica Etchings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14885
label: catalog number
content: 14885
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 15.5 cm x 10 cm; 6 1/8 in x 3 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 16.5 cm x 12.5 cm; 6 1/2 in x 4 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 30 cm x 22.5 cm; 11 13/16 in x 8 7/8 in