a) William Blake; b) "Naught Can So Deform the Human Race Like the Armourer's Iron Embrace" from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959

1959 (published 1961)

Leonard Baskin

Artist, American, 1922 - 2000

Gehenna Press

Publisher

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    a) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper b) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (a): 6.9 × 6 cm (2 11/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
    image (b): 13 × 6.5 cm (5 1/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 43 × 44.5 cm (16 15/16 × 17 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.223.65.a-b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, a) no. 370; b) no. 371

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Associated Artworks

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a) Page 3, from "A Poem Called the Tunning of Elynour Rummynge"; b) Page 15, from "A Poem Called the Tunning of Elynour Rummynge" from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959

Leonard Baskin, Gehenna Press

1953

a) Ex-Libris for Cynthia and Paul Seton; b) Ex-Libris for Louis Black; c) Mark for Smith Glass and Mirror Company; d) Ex-Libris for Frederick Cleveland Mitchell; e) Ex-Libris for Dorothy King; f) Ex-Libris for Alex Page from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959

Leonard Baskin, Gehenna Press

1959

Colophon

Leonard Baskin, Gehenna Press

1959

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1984

  • Fern, Alan, and Judith O'Sullivan. The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-1983. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1984, no. 370.

Inscriptions

a) "180" lower center margin, grey ink.
b) "181" lower center margin, grey ink.

Markings

"National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q65510887

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