Hippolytos - Suite of 10 etchings by Leonard Baskin, set of 10 etchings

Leonard Baskin: Hippolytos - Suite of 10 etchings
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Hippolytos - Suite of 10 etchings by Leonard Baskin

set of 10 etchings, 1969
Catalogue Reference: Fern & O'Sullivan 524 - 533
Sheet Size: 48.0 x 32.0 cm - (19 x 12½ inches)
each etching signed and numbered 67/90 in pencil
Price: GB Ł1500
Approx. US$2,753 (at 1.835 ) or 1,875 Euro (at 1.25)

perfect impressions on pale cream pre-1939 Italian hand made paper with a watermark Umbria Amalfi and a crown; deckle edges on two sides and full, wide margins
the plates are of various sizes
the separate suite of etchings aside from the book edition of 200 unsigned impressions
the set is in pristine condition

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