The Queen of the Fishes: Plate 9
Medium
woodcut printed in gray
Dimensions
{"book page":{"height":0.192,"width":0.133}}
Classification
Bound Volume
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Henry H. Hawley for the fiftieth anniversary of The Print Club of Cleveland
Accession Number
1970.50.i
Tags
About this artwork
Pissarro, son of the French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, moved to England in 1890. By 1894 he and his wife, Esther Bensusan Pissarro, had bought a printing press and established the Eragny Press. Influenced by William Morris, they were involved in every step of the production process: designing, cutting the woodblocks, setting type, and printing. The first book published by Ergany Press, The Queen of the Fishes, is based on an old fairy tale in which a peasant boy and girl escape the h...