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The Monkey
Illustrated by: Thomas Cornell (American, born in 1937)
Text by: Thomas Henry Huxley (English, 1825–1895)
Publisher: Apiary Press (American, 20th century)
Text by: Thomas Henry Huxley (English, 1825–1895)
Publisher: Apiary Press (American, 20th century)
1959
Place of Publication: Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 13 etchings
Dimensions
Overall (sewn, without boards): 33.4 x 25.8 x 1.6 cm (13 1/8 x 10 3/16 x 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of R.M. Light and Company, Inc.
Accession Number69.63
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
[Northampton, MA] Apiary Press, 1959
Description([Northampton, MA] Apiary Press, 1959) 33.4 cm; [13 ff.] 10 plates [1 f.]; sewn but without boards.
The colophon reads: "Sixty copies of this, the fifteenth book issued by the Apiary Press, have been printed on Arnold's handmade collotype paper. The book has been set in Garamond Italic light by Pat Milne Henderson. The copper and zinc plates have been etched from Nature and printed by Thomas Browne Cornell. The book was completed in August, 1959. This is Number [44]"
The etchings include ten full-page plates, two small vignettes on the half-title and title pages, and a vignette of an insect printed in green on the colophon page.
The colophon reads: "Sixty copies of this, the fifteenth book issued by the Apiary Press, have been printed on Arnold's handmade collotype paper. The book has been set in Garamond Italic light by Pat Milne Henderson. The copper and zinc plates have been etched from Nature and printed by Thomas Browne Cornell. The book was completed in August, 1959. This is Number [44]"
The etchings include ten full-page plates, two small vignettes on the half-title and title pages, and a vignette of an insect printed in green on the colophon page.
Signed
Pen and black ink below colophon: "Thomas Browne Cornell"; graphite on half-title "Thomas Cornell"
InscriptionsGraphite on half title, by the artist: "For Robert Light / January 1968 / in consideration for a Rembrant [sic] Beggar / [profile sketch of a man]" Graphite on front pastedown leaf "Property of R. M. Light"
ProvenanceAcquired in 1968 from the artist by Robert M. Light; gift of R. M. Light and Company, Inc., to MFA, April 10, 1969.