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
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Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 263, repr.
- Works on Paper
cf. Phillips, Elizabeth, The American Livre de Peintre, New York, The Grolier Club, 1993, no. 43.
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