Materials:
Malacca de Lana paper, Vélin du Marais paper
Physical Object Description:
Published as an unbound book in deluxe and standard editions with a French translation by André Gide of Goethe's Prometheus and eight full-page and six small lithographs CGM 19-32 and one lithograph CGM 18 on the cover, all unnumbered and unsigned. The deluxe edition contains a suite of lithographs printed on Malacca de Lana. The first eight copies of the deluxe edition also have a suite of the first state of lithographs printed on Malacca de Lana and an original drawing.
80 numbered pages of vélin du Marais in ten unbound signatures of 2 leaves contained in a square-folded light brown paper cover with CGM 18 on the front within a Solander box covered in beige paper with a design incorporating the letter 'P' on the front and the title on the spine, both printed in red.
Technique:
Lithograph
Dimensions:
39 x 29 cm
Credit:
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1952
Ownership history:
Purchased by Sir Philip Hendy (1900-1980) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1951; presented to The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, 1952; whereabouts unknown