Hippolytus by Leonard Baskin, etching

Leonard Baskin: Hippolytus
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etching, 1969
Catalogue Reference: Fern & O'Sullivan 527
Plate/Image Size: 30.0 x 18.5 cm - (11¾ x 7¼ inches)
Sheet Size: 48.0 x 32.0 cm - (19 x 12½ inches)
signed and numbered 67/90 in pencil
Price: GB Ł250
Approx. US$375 (at 1.50 ) or 300 Euro (at 1.20)

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a perfect impression on pale cream pre-1939 Italian hand made paper; deckle edges on three sides and full, wide margins
in pristine condition

from the separate suite of 10 etchings aside from the book edition of 200 unsigned impressions

the etchings were made to illustrate the Gehenna Press edition of Robert Bagg's translation of Euripides' play about Hippolytus and his father Theseus and step-mother Phaedra, queen of the Amazons. They are among the most powerful images Baskin made of mythical subjects