El cometa

Date: 1963

Medium: Etching

Dimensions (cm.): 14.3 x 10.6 (platemark)

Alternate titles: Unknown

Published edition: 

1. Plate 4 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. 

2. Unknown number of impressions outside the edition.

Contemporary publication: Manuel Maples Arce, A la orilla de este rio (Madrid: Editorial Plenitud, 1964), p. 83

References: Information to be added

Selected additional references (illustrated): Maples Arce 1970, pl. 78.

Cataloging note:  This etching was one of  32 illustrations commissioned for Maples Arce's memoir. This image preceded chapter 5.

Catalogue record number: 18