Title:
[Self-portrait of Fritz Wikersheim]
Creator/Contributor:
Wikersheim, Fritz (active ca. 1847-1851), French, artist (artist)
Date:
1847
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1304:01--ALB
Format:
drawing on paper: watercolor and pencil
20.3 x 13.2 cm., image 8 x 7 cm.
Content/Description:
Half-length, self-portrait of Wikersheim as youth (looks about fifteen years old or less) wearing sailor's cap, shirt, and
blouse, drawn while on board the Victor (ship). Photograph of same boy in uniform mounted on facing page.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Signature (LC): Fritz Wikersheim d--/Reinenweier (Alsace)/(Océan Atlantique). Handwritten (LL, within image):
abord du Victor/Janvier 1847. Inscriptions in French.
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Photographs;
Portraits;
Travel sketches