Catalogue entries are organized in a standardized sequence:
artist | |
title | |
date | in brackets when assigned and not documented |
technique | in terms of material substance (graphite, ink, watercolour …), tools (pen, brush…), support or carrier (paper, canvas…); graphite preceding watercolour means under-drawing etc. |
measurements | size of whole objects in metric and imperial measurements; size of stretcher in oil on canvas |
signed | transcription includes what are believed to be inscriptions by the artist’s own hand with addition of (/) for indication a new line |
inscribed | transcription of significant secondary additions in writing with addition of (/) for indication a new line |
provenance | available documented origin of an object |
exhibitions | available evidence of exhibition |
literature | objects published or mentioned in print of significance |
top, upper, bottom, lower, right, left, center | |
r | recto: face |
v | verso: back—terms combined to describe location of interest |
window | opening of the mount (passe-partout), size of image, when it is not possible to take measurements of the whole object without the risk of damage |
support | enforcement of the carrier |
paper, light board, board | categories determined by weight of paper |
oil, board | oil on a stiff plate, made of combined materials for painting purposes oil, wood oil on wooden board |
wove paper | hand-made paper with smooth surface |
laid paper | hand-made paper with ribbed surface produced by wire sieve |
prepared paper | paper with a post-production treatment of the surface for drawing purposes |
buff paper | color of unbleached paper of any hue between grey-brown-yellow-tan |
laid on | pasted on stronger support, enforced |
pasted | paper pasted on the opening of a mount |
ink | liquid media |
India ink | black ink |
reps | cloth woven in fine ribs combining materials (in our case cotton for ribs and hemp for weaving) |
A.R.A. | Associate Royal Academician |
R.A. | Royal Academy; Royal Academician |
attr. | attributed |
ed., eds. | editor(s) |
edn. | edition |
ibid. | ibidem: in the same place as quoted before |
ms. | manuscript |
MP | member of parliament |
P.R.B. | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
[sic] | warning of mistake transcribed from the original |
Bibliography
Crowther, Paul. Awakening Beauty: The Crowther-Oblak Collection of Victorian Art. Exhibition catalogue. Ljubljana: National Gallery of Slovenia; Galway: Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, 2014.