Footnotes

¹ Receipt of this letter is recorded in Schenker’s diary for August 21, 1925: “Von Hammer (Br.): in einer Rolle auch ein Probeabzug des Bildes; er erklärt, noch unzufrieden zu sein. Bleibt bis 26. d. in Wien, dann in St. Martin – Lie Liechen ist sehr zufrieden mit dem Bild. (“From Hammer (letter): in a roll, also a test proof of the portrait; he declares that he is still dissatisfied. He will stay in Vienna until the 26th of this month, then [he will be] in St. Martin. – Lie-Liechen is very satisfied with the portrait.”)

² A photograph of this proof inscribed “Vorletzter Probedruck (penultimate proof). Victor Hammer 1925.” survives as OJ 72/14, item 8. Proofs of the several states of the portrait are described by Ulrich Middeldorf in Victor Hammer: Artist and Printer, compiled by Carolyn R. Hammer (Lexington, Kentucky: The Anvil Press, 1981); see chapter 1, "Mezzotints," p. 22 (Catalogue, No. 6) and pp. 34–35 (plates 6a and 6b). Plate 6a (London, 1925) shows a somewhat less stylized depiction than the final state; it most likely represents the test proof Hammer sent to Schenker.

Commentary

Format

1p letter, holograph (uncial script) salutation, message, valediction, and signature

Provenance

Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1945)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1945-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)

Rights Holder

Heirs and representatives of Viktor Hammer

License

Permission to publish granted by the executor of the estate of Carolyn Reading Hammer October 14, 2013. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Documents Online, at schenkercorrespondence (at) mus (dot) cam (dot) uk

Digital version created: 2022-06-09
Last updated: 2011-02-12