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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25393.1-6
People
Roger Vieillard, French (Le Mans, France 1907 - 1989 Paris, France)
Printed by Roger Lacourière, French (1892 - 1966)
Title
Petrified Days
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Jours Pétrifiés, poems by Jean Tardieu
Series/Book Title: Petrified Days
Classification
Prints
Work Type
book
Date
1947
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/144477

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving and letterpress
Dimensions
box: 29.5 x 23.3 cm (11 5/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: collophon, p. 95, black printer's ink, letterpress: IL A ÉTÉ TIRÉ DE LA PRÉSENTE / édition, sur vélin de pur chiffon, à la forme, des / Papeteries du Marais, cent quarante-six exem- / plaires ainsi justifiés: vingt-six accompagnés / de deux suites des gravures, l'une en noir sur / Annam, l'autre en sanguine sur Malacca ivoires, / numérotés de 1 à 26, et cent exemplaires numé - / rotés de 27 à 126; en outre, vingt exemplaires / hors-commerce dont huit avec les suites, de I / à VIII, et douze, de IX à XX réservés aux collaborateurs. / / / / / / EXEMPLAIRE / 124 / / / / / / ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER LE TEXTE / composé à la main en Caslon de vingt par / Jourde et Allard (successeurs de A. Jourde, / pressier à bras), et les gravures par La Courière à / Paris le dix juillet mil neuf cent quarante-sept.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pearl K. and Daniel Bell, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, October 15, 2002.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
J. 14

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Pearl K. and Daniel Bell
Copyright
© Roger Vieillard / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
M25393.1-6
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Poems by Jean Tardieu
Published by the Nouvelle Revue Française and the Librarie Gallimard, Paris 1947 Typography by Jourde and Allard
Printing of plates by Roger Lacourière.
Book not bound

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