II/II
I/II
Grandmother III
1884
163 x 113 mm
Three consecutive etchings depict the artist's grandmother. The watercolour of the same name "Mormor" from 1883 served as a model.
Catalogues:
Schubert-Soldern 10 »Mormor. Die Grossmutter«
Loys Delteil 20 »Mormor III«
Karl Asplund 16 »Grandmother I«
Hjert & Hjert 14 »Mormor I«
Sven Lidbeck 16 »Grossmutter I«
II/II
Bukowskis
Delteil 20 II/II
Dark background and additional horizontal and vertical lines on the clothing.
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