Primeras imágenes
Date: 1963
Medium: Etching
Dimensions (cm.): 16.0 x 12.5 (platemark)
Variants: A variant exists as one of four variant images from A la orilla de este rio etched by Méndez on a single plate.
Published edition:
Plate 1 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)
Principal references: Information to be added
Selected additional references (illustrated): Carrillo Azpeitia 1984, pl. 120
Selected public collections: AAM; IAGO
Cataloging note: This etching was one of 32 illustrations commissioned for Maples Arce's memoir. This image preceded chapter 1.
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: 25