[Carmina]

Artist Renée Sintenis (German, 1888-1965)

Publisher [Verlag der Marées-Gesellschaft], Piper & Co., [Munich], 1921

Author Sappho (Greek, about 610 -about 580 BCE)

Artist Emil Rudolf Weiss (German, 1875-1942)

Date1921

DimensionsSlipcase: H: 10 7/8 in. (276 mm); W: 8 3/16 in. (208 mm); Depth: 5/8 in. (16 mm).
Book: H: 10 1/2 in. (267 mm); W: 8 in. (203 mm); Depth: 7/16 in. (11 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 10 1/4 in. (261 mm); W: 7 7/8 in. (200 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 12 engravings. Text: 22 engraved Greek poems in black, letterpress in sanguine (colophon). Paper: Wiggins Teape (?) cream laid paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.1092

Not on View

Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 286, repr.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Classically Modern: Classical Texts with Modern Prints from the Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, 2000, repr. p. 9.

Toledo Museum of Art, Drawn from Classicism: Modern Artists’ Books, September 9-December 10, 2017.