LOT DETAILS

Materials:

woodcut with letterpress text

Measurements:

9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (height) by 11.73 in. (29.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

watermark Anchor in Circle (M. 171)

Condition:

a very good impression of this rare and important woodcut, first edition (of eight), with the complete letterpress text above, with thread margins or trimmed to the borderline at left and right, trimmed just inside the borderline below and to the text above, a small abrasion in the monogram, otherwise in good condition

Provenance:

Sotheby's, London, 15 April 1920, lot 139. With Colnaghi's, London (their stocknumber C. 5548 in pencil verso), purchased at the above sale, sold on 31 March 1955 to Knoedler, New York.