Swans

1956

M.C. Escher

Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.48 × 40.01 cm (12 × 15 3/4 in.)
    image: 19.84 × 31.75 cm (7 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1974.28.61

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bool 1981, no. 408

  • Copyright

    All M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art-Baarn-the Netherlands. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1981

  • Bool, F.H. et al. M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1981; English-language edition, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982.

1990

  • Schattschneider, Doris. Visions of Symmetry: Notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and Related Work of M. C. Escher. New York, 1990: illustrated page 310.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: M. C. Escher; lower right in graphite: eigendruck; upper right in block: II-'56 MCE [monogram]; lower right margin in graphite, by later hand: "White and Black Swans" wood engraving $ [undeciphered] [$ and undeciphered text are erased]

Wikidata ID

Q65574345

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