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Rockwell Kent

Exhibition Announcement for the Moby Dick illustrations,

Description

Maker

  • Rockwell Kent

Title

Exhibition Announcement for the Moby Dick illustrations

Medium

electrotype

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • electrotype

Techniques

  • electrotype

Supports

  • medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

36.8 x 26 cm (14 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches) (sheet) unfolded

Signature / Inscription / Marks

In Plate--Inside on left:E. WEYHE ANNOUNCES AN EXHIBITION OF THE/ROCKWELL KENT DRAWINGS FOR MOBY DICK/FEBRUARY TWENTY-FOURTH TO MARCH FIF-/TEENTH, 794 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK,/THESE DRAWINGS , OF WHICH THERE ARE TWO/ HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN, HAVE BEEN/MADE FOR A FORTHCOMING EDITION OF MEL-/VILLE'S GREAT WORK, THEY ARE UNDOUBTEDLY/ROCKWELL KENT'S HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ILLUSTRATION AND THEY ARE NOW SHOWN IN/ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION, THROUGH THE/COURTESY OF THE LAKESIDE PRESS, CHICAGO

Marks: Partial Watermark:...NOLD

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Museum Collection

Object Number

78.029.1

About

Exhibition Announcement for the Moby Dick illustrations

In Plate--Inside on left:E. WEYHE ANNOUNCES AN EXHIBITION OF THE/ROCKWELL KENT DRAWINGS FOR MOBY DICK/FEBRUARY TWENTY-FOURTH TO MARCH FIF-/TEENTH, 794 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK,/THESE DRAWINGS , OF WHICH THERE ARE TWO/ HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN, HAVE BEEN/MADE FOR A FORTHCOMING EDITION OF MEL-/VILLE'S GREAT WORK, THEY ARE UNDOUBTEDLY/ROCKWELL KENT'S HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ILLUSTRATION AND THEY ARE NOW SHOWN IN/ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION, THROUGH THE/COURTESY OF THE LAKESIDE PRESS, CHICAGO

Marks: Partial Watermark:...NOLD

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Rockwell Kent

Exhibition Announcement for the Moby Dick illustrations
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Rockwell Kent

Exhibition Announcement for the Moby Dick illustrations

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Exhibition Announcement for the Moby Dick illustrations with the accession number of 78.029.1. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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