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A Whitman Portrait
Artist: Antonio Frasconi (American (born Uruguay), 1919 - 2013)
Publisher: Antonio Frasconi, South Norwalk, Connecticut, [1960]
Printer: The Spiral Press, New York
Author: Walt Whitman (American, 1819-1892)
Date: 1960
Dimensions:
Book: H: 7 1/2 in. (190 mm); W: 5 1/2 in. (139 mm); Depth: 1/2 in. (12 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 7 1/4 in. (184 mm); W: 5 3/16 in. (131 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 18 woodcuts (including cover), printed in color on Goyu cream wove paper, 2 with green tissue overlays; plus woodcut publisher's device.
Facsimile text: relief line block reproductions of Whitman's original handwritten letters in brown on Goyu cream wove paper.
Text: letterpress in black on Goyu paper cream wove or on tan laid paper (typeface: Bodoni).
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.484
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