THE COLLECTION
Gerhard Marcks (German, 1889–1981)
The Illustrated Book
Tierfabeln des Aesop (Aesop's Fables)
- Author:
- Aesop
- Date:
- (1950, prints executed 1949-50)
- Medium:
- Illustrated book with thirty-five woodcuts (including woodcut cover, title page and ornamental initials)
- Dimensions:
- page (each): 13 x 9 1/16" (33 x 23 cm); overall: 13 1/16 x 9 5/16 x 1/2" (33.1 x 23.6 x 1.2 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, smooth, wove.
- Publisher:
- Grillen-Presse, Hamburg
- Printer:
- Richard von Sichowsky, Hamburg
- Edition:
- 1st edition: 175 (including 50 on white "Hahnemühle-Bütten," bound in half-parchment; 100 on cream "Hahnemühle-Bütten," unbound in "Bütten" cover [this ex.]; and 25 hors-commerce); 2nd edition, 1980: 700
- Credit Line:
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Gerhard-Marcks-Stiftung, Bremen, Germany
- Reference:
- Lammek H. 484.1-33.
- MoMA Number:
- 305.1950.1-20
- Themes:
- Literary Subjects