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Last updated: 5/8/2012
HOW TO READ A LABEL
You can learn a lot about a work of art by reading its identifying label. Here are a few hints. Let's take the label for this work by Rachel Ruysch as an example.
Rachel Ruysch (1)
Dutch, 1664/1665 - 1750 (2)
Floral Still Life, 1686 (3)
Dutch Painting (4)
Oil on canvas (5)
45 1/8 in. x 34 3/8 in. (114.62 cm x 87.31 cm) (without frame) (6)
Acquired with contributions made in memory of Brenda Rowntree by her friends, through the Acquisition Fund of the Women's Council, and the Marion Stratton Gould Fund, (7) 82.9 (8)
(1) Artist's name
(2) Artist's nationality, birth and death dates
(3) Title and date artwork was made. Some artworks may have creation dates that include the terms BCE and/or CE.
(4) Type of artwork
(5) Medium, the materials the artist used
(6) Dimensions
(7)The source of the artwork, which means the name or names of the people who gave it to the Gallery or the funds we used to buy it. This painting was bought with money from three sources.
(8) Accession number. The first set of digits tell the year the artwork
was acquired. The number following the period indicates the order it
came into the collection that year. This was the 9th
artwork acquired in 1982.
Accession numbers that begin with "EX" are on loan to the
Gallery as part of a temporary exhibition, and are not part of the Gallery's
permanent collection.
