Copper plate for The Purple Claw | Yale University Art Gallery

1952

This plate highlights the variety of marks that can be achieved using etching and engraving. Peterdi created the shallower lines and marks through engraving and the wider sunken areas through etching. The finished print, in which the image is in reverse, as is typical of printmaking, is at the right. Although the artist intended to pull an edition of 200, he only printed 50.

Medium: Etched and engraved copper plate
Dimensions: platemark: 14 1/16 × 17 1/16 in. (35.7 × 43.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Joan Peterdi
Accession Number: 2009.89.2
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Print Matrices
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Provenance

Gabor Peterdi; Joan Peterdi

Bibliography

"Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed 2012), 71, ill

Object copyright

Not Assigned

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