MICHAEL MAZUR ETCHINGS: THE INFERNO OF DANTE
Portfolio Format
The portfolio, printed in an edition of 50, contains 41 etchings printed on Arches Cover White with accompanying bilingual text printed on UV Ultra vellum.
Each etching is signed and numbered and measures 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches.
The housing of the prints are two red silk triptych-style portfolios made by hand at the Harcourt Bindery in Boston, MA. Each portfolio has interior flaps to fully protect the prints.
The covering material is Italian-made Canapetta, an Italian backcloth that is made from a blend of cotton and linen.
The exterior, archival-quality portfolio boxes are hand crafted at Portfoliobox, Inc. in Providence, RI, and are also covered with red Canapetta.
Michael Mazur’s forty-one etchings for The Inferno of Dante were made by the artist from 1997-2000 and printed by the artist and Robert Townsend at R. E. Townsend Editions in Georgetown, Massachusetts.The Italian text is excerpted from the Meridiani edition, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore and set in Adobe Weiss Italic.The English verse translation by Robert Pinsky is excerpted from The Inferno of Dante, copyright 1994 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and is set in Adobe Optima.The type was printed by David Wolfe at Wolfe Editions, Portland, Maine.
The text & binding designs for both the book & the portfolio are by Anne Beresford, Boston.
TWO VOLUME BOUND FORMAT
IMAGES AND TEXTS
ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY
EXHIBITIONS
OTHERS HAVE WRITTEN
Portfolios and books may be ordered from Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019, Telephone 212-397-0669
copyright © Michael Mazur and Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1993/2003