Photo: Allentown Art Museum,
Purchase: Gift of Paul K. Kania, 2019. (2019.19.1.5)
Photo: Allentown Art Museum,
Purchase: Gift of Paul K. Kania, 2019. (2019.19.1.5)
Date: 1963
Medium: Etching
Dimensions (cm.): 15.0 x 10.0 (platemark); 13.1 x 9.2 (image)
Alternate titles: Unknown. This title supplied by the editors.
Published edition:
Plate 5 of the portfolio Diez aguafuertes, published 1964 in a signed edition of 20 on ivory wove. The portfolio contains 10 of Mendez's illustrations for A la orilla de este rio. Sheet dimensions of impressions in the edition are 33.0 x 25.0 cm. Impressions from the edition are signed in graphite, lower right, numbered in graphite, lower left.
Unknown number of impressions outside the edition.
Contemporary publication: Manuel Maples Arce, A la orilla de este rio (Madrid: Editorial Plenitud, 1964), p. 123
Principal references: Information to be added
Selected public collections: AAM
Cataloging note: This etching was one of 32 illustrations commissioned for Maples Arce's memoir. This image preceded chapter 8. It is one of the images on a plate with 3 etchings.
Related works: Méndez’s involvement with the book project yielded many illustrations as well as alternate versions, illustrations not used in the book, and sheets of proofs.
Obras relacionadas: La participación de Méndez en el proyecto del libro dio como resultado numerosas ilustraciones, así como versiones alternativas, ilustraciones no utilizadas en el libro y hojas de pruebas.
Catalogue record number: 659