Book of hours [print].

Accession number: 
PML 195748
Author: 
Walker, George A. (George Alexander), 1960-.
Published: 
Toronto, 2008?
Description: 
1 print : wood engraving ; 70 x 100 mm; sheet: 140 x 190 mm
Credit: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2011.
Notes: 

Artist's proof of a hand-printed wood engraving for Book of Hours (2008).
Title from inscription in pencil below image.
"This wood engraving is from the hand printed book titled: Book of hours: a tragic New York novel told with 99 wood engravings, by George Walker"--Printed descriptive sheet.
The initials GW have been embossed on lower right of sheet.
Marked 'Sept 10, 2001' in pencil at bottom of sheet.
PML owns the preliminary pencil drawing and engraved wood block for this print (PML 195746-7), as well as a copy of the first edition of Book of Hours (PML 195745), in which the image appears as plate 79.
"There are usually less than ten A/P designated prints in any edition"--Printed descriptive sheet.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Signed in pencil below image and marked by artist: A/P.

Summary: 

Illustration shows two figures in the foreground of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

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