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Known Fables (New York: Spiral Press, 1964)
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Date:
1964
Location:
Not on display
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Media:
Book With 12 Woodcuts, 11 Printed In Black, Colophon Image Printed In Red
Dimensions:
Object: 192 x 140 x 10 mm (7 9/16 x 5 1/2 x 3/8 in.)
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Continent:
North America
Provenance:
Edition: 500, of which this 178/500
Types of Papers/Materials Used: Goyu paper;
Binding:decorated boards
Volumes in Set:1
Pagination:unnumbered
Languages Used in Text:English
Provenance:George Hopper Fitch
Exhibition History:
Remarks:signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon page in black ink: 178 Antonio Frasconi. Also stamped in blue with the artist’s monogram. Text (printed in red) from the volume printed by S. Hodgson in Newcastle in 1820 with Thomas Bewick’s wood engravings.
Duplicate (183/500), gift of M/M Allan P. Sindler 1980, for deaccession 1994;
Accession Number:
1986.1.161.1-12
Acquisition Date:
1986-01-01
Credit Line:
Gift of George Hopper Fitch
verses with illustrations; fox and grapes; lion and goat; ant and fly; wolf and crane; wolf and lamb; peacocks; fox and crow;
