Materials:
Paper
Physical Object Description:
Portfolio of 16 prints. Etching and partly in aquatint printed in two colours, 30 x 40, on sheet, 49.5 x 62. Each print inscribed, just below plate, ‘34/50’ bottom left, and ‘David Hockney’ bottom right. Standard title for the suite, ‘A RAKE’S PROGRESS/ LONDON/NEW YORK 1961–62/PLATE NO.’, followed by the number and title of the individual print. The position of the title-inscription in each print is indicated above. Each print also embossed, bottom right, with publisher’s device, ‘ea’ [Editions Alecto].
Technique:
Aquatint, Etching
Dimensions:
20 x 24.25 cm
Accession Number:
P.2011.8.9
Credit:
Gifted through the Contemporary Art Society, as a bequest from Dr Ronald Lande, in memory of his life partner Walter Urech, 2011
Ownership history:
Lewis M. Kaplan, London; bought by Dr Ronald Lande (-2010), 1973; by whom bequeathed to the Contemporary Art Society to be gifted to a museum, in memory of his life partner Walter Urech, 2010; presented to The Whitworth (Whitworth Art Gallery), The University of Manchester, 2011