Robert Frost Book Plate, 1923

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Medium

wood engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 9.68 × 6.99 cm (3 13/16 × 2 3/4 in.)

sheet: 16.67 × 20.32 cm (6 9/16 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the children of J.J. Lankes)

Catalogue Raisonné

Lankes 1958, no. 277

Accession Number

2015.19.3306

Artists / Makers

J. J. Lankes (artist) American, 1884 - 1960

J. B. Lankes (printer) American, 1915 - 2010

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Inscription

lower right in plate: [the artist's monogram] 1923; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 277; lower right corner in black ink by unknown hand: FPC1

Marks and Labels

stamped lower right in black ink: Del & Sculp:JJL:****:Imp:JBL / Reproduction Rights Reserved; stamped lower right verso in black ink: J. B. Lankes / Post Office Box 91 / Richmond, Virginia

Provenance

the artist, Durham, North Carolina; J. B. Lankes (the artist's son), Hampton, Virginia, 1960; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Lankes, J. B.

Bibliography

n.d.: Lankes, J.J. Woodcut Record. Unpublished (College of William and Mary Special Collection), p. 6, no. 277.