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[Suite of Beowulf lithographs]

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Graphic Artwork
     
  • Artist
    Kent, Rockwell
  • City
    New York
    Publisher
    Rockwell Kent
    Date
    1931
  • Relationships
    (Downstream) Reformatted and recontextualized in -> Beowulf, Leonard, William Ellery (1932)
    (Downstream) Excerpted and reformatted as -> Beowulf postcard from Kent lithograph, Kent, Rockwell (1974)
    (Downstream) Excerpted and recontextualized as -> Beowulf and the Dragon, Kent, Rockwell (1939)
    (Downstream) Excerpted and recontextualized as -> "Beowulf" and "Funeral Pyre", Kent, Rockwell (1933)
  • Descriptive Notes

    A series of stone lithographs by Kent, issued by him and printer George Miller, most of them in a limited edition of 150 prints. In Rockwellkentiana (see Authentication, below), pp. 50-51, Kent and Zigrosser number and list them, and give the quantity of each printed, as follows:

    56. "Hand Holding Sword," 150 printed
    57. "Genealogical Tree," 150 printed
    58. "View of Scandinavia," "very few" printed
    59. "Beowulf & Grenda's Mother," 150 printed ("Grenda's" sic)
    60. "Beowulf," 150 printed
    61. "Beowulf and the Dragon," 150 printed
    62. "Funeral Pyre," 150 printed
    63. "Colophon," 150 printed

    The 8 images were used the following year for the deluxe presentation of William Ellery Leonard's translation of Beowulf (1932), but reversed from their original prints: each is noted (Rockwellkentiana, 50-51) to have been printed thus in the book. The same note indicates that the two in the series that contain words in the Beowulf book ("Genealogical Tree" and "View of Scandinavia") did not in the original prints, the words being added in the offsets for the book.

    Associated with this suite of lithographs is one additional one, listed thus by Kent and Zigrosser (p. 50):

    55. "Hero," 150 printed

    The annotation indicates that this is "A figure of a man by a tree stump on a mountain top," and that it was "done at the time and in the spirit of the Beowulf Illustrations" (Rockwellkentiana, 50).

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    Notes on Prior Documentation

    Not in Fry, MO1, GR, or MO2.

     
    Authentication

    [Have requested purchase of one original by Cushing.] For all others: Rockwell Kent and Carl Zigrosser, Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures by R. K., and, by Carl Zigrosser, a Bibliography and List of Prints (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933).

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    07/16/2023