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Blank Signs
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Grey, cloth bound board portfolio, no image or text on portfolio cover; five separate sheets cream paper; frontispiece embossed in letterpress on recto and verso; four separate images, each centered on page.
Portfolio with five sheets:
Frontispiece - Letterpress (printed recto and verso)
TL 39740 (Parent record)
Four prints - each etching with aquatint
Each page: 32.3 x 30.5 cm 12 7/16 x 12 inches
Plate dimensions on prints: 19.9 x 19.8 cm 7 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches
Edition of 35: 28/25
TL 39740.1 - 4
Design: Ed Ruscha and Jacob Samuel
Technique: Etching with aquatint
Printing: Jacob Samuel and Eric Ziemann
Letterpress: Les Ferriss
Project coordinator: Chelsea Hadley
Paper: Magnani Pescia
Edition: 35
Artist's Proofs: 5
Lapis Proofs: 2
Printer's Proofs: 2
BAT: 1
Co-published by Lapis/Edition Jacob Samuel
Rights: © Ed Ruscha
Department of Prints
Anthony and Celeste Meier San Francisco California gift; to Harvard University Art Museums August 16 2005.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Anthony and Celeste Meier in honor of Marjorie B. Cohn
Title: Blank Signs
Description:
Grey, cloth bound board portfolio, no image or text on portfolio cover; five separate sheets cream paper; frontispiece embossed in letterpress on recto and verso; four separate images, each centered on page.
Portfolio with five sheets:
Frontispiece - Letterpress (printed recto and verso)
TL 39740 (Parent record)
Four prints - each etching with aquatint
Each page: 32.
3 x 30.
5 cm 12 7/16 x 12 inches
Plate dimensions on prints: 19.
9 x 19.
8 cm 7 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches
Edition of 35: 28/25
TL 39740.
1 - 4
Design: Ed Ruscha and Jacob Samuel
Technique: Etching with aquatint
Printing: Jacob Samuel and Eric Ziemann
Letterpress: Les Ferriss
Project coordinator: Chelsea Hadley
Paper: Magnani Pescia
Edition: 35
Artist's Proofs: 5
Lapis Proofs: 2
Printer's Proofs: 2
BAT: 1
Co-published by Lapis/Edition Jacob Samuel.
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