print;
illustrated book;
portfolio
- Museum number
- 1971,0515.2.1-26
- Title
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Object: Polyphemus fretting
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Object: Daphnis, Menalcas, Gotehearde
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Object: Galatea spurning Polyphemus
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Object: Death of Adonis (first version)
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Object: Neteheard scorned
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Object: Hiero or Charities
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Object: Twelve noble spartan virgins
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Object: Half-title design
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Object: King Hiero, the Ancient worthies match (plate 4)
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Object: Death of Adonis (second version)
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Object: King Hiero, the ancient worthies match (second version)
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Series: Sixe Idyllia chosen out of the Sicilian poet Theocritus and translated into English verse
- Description
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A private press book consisting of a volume of text with eight illustrations bound in brown leather and a box, quarter bound brown leather with marbled paper sides, containing ten etchings in the first state and eight in the final state, and three drawings (these removed and mounted separately, see 1971,0515.3, 4, and 5); volume and box in a slip case bound in light brown buckram with leather edge; with introduction by Douglas Cleverdon (New York: Clover Hill Editions, 1971);
- Production date
- 1971
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 255 millimetres (slipcase)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- An introduction to the text volume signed by the artist reads as follows: "This is the sixth of the Clover Hill editions of the Chilmark Press. The edition comprises: 12 copies, lettered A-L and signed by the artist, each containing a set of signed proofs of the etchings in first state, and a set of signed prints in final state; of which four copies are for presentation. 135 copies, numbered I-CXXXV and signed by the artist, each containing a set of signed prints in final state; of which ten copies are for presentation. 270 copies, numbered 1-270; of which twenty copies are for persentation. This is number I". At the end of the book is the colophon of the Rampant Lions Press followed by a note on the printing: "Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge in Hermann Zapf's Palatino types, the etchings printed by Studio Prints, paper made by J. Barcham Green".
For another related drawing, see 1971,0515.8
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Sixe Idyllia
- Acquisition date
- 1971
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1971,0515.2.1-26
