Details
Artist | Gordon Craig, English, 1872-1966 |
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Date | 1907 |
Medium | Etching printed in black on laid paper |
Dimensions | plate: 4 1/8 x 3 1/4 in. 10.4 x 8.2 cm sheet: 11 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. 29.2 x 23.8 cm |
Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase, Paul Mc Pharlin Memorial Fund |
Accession Number | 65.32 |
Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed | In plate, lower right corner: \artist's monogram!; in pencil, lower right: 1907 / EGC / \unidentified device! |
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Inscriptions | In pencil, upper left corner of sheet: 11; in ink, upper right corner of face mat: 1; in pencil by the artist on back mat: In this first Portfolio - 1 to 12 - & in the second Portfolio - Nos. 13 to 18 / are all moments of the movement of the simplest form - or at any rate / the one which seems to me simplest \drawing of a cube! .Such / movement is always / direct & produces the / most beautiful form. / The 6 etchings 19 to 24 are not / concerned with movement. / In the first 18 you will see there are no actualities such as doors windows. / In the the last 6 they creep in -- more people creep in also- |