A Whitman Portrait

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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)

Date1960

DimensionsBook: 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).

MediumOriginal 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).

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.484

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Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 112.