The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
Artist
Kurt Roesch
(American, 1905-1984)
Publisher
Wittenborn and Co., New York, 1944
Author
Rainer Maria Rilke
(German, 1875-1926)
Date1944
DimensionsBook: H: 16 in. (407 mm); W: 10 3/4 in. (273 mm); Depth: 5/8 in. (16 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 15 3/4 in. (400 mm); W: 10 1/4 in. (261 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 15 3/4 in. (400 mm); W: 10 1/4 in. (261 mm).
MediumOriginal prints: 9 engravings with etching and aquatint on hand-made Montval cream laid paper, watermarked.
Text: letterpress on hand-made Arches cream laid paper (typeface: Etienne, Arrighi, Trajan, and Elizabeth).
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number
1984.1017
Not on View
cf. Phillips, Elizabeth, The American Livre de Peintre, New York, The Grolier Club, 1993, no. 43.
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