Emerging Infectious Diseases | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 17.2007
People: Eric Avery, American (born 1948)
Title: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: c. 2000
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/319195

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Linoleum block print on mulberry and green surgical towel rag papers

Technique

Relief cut

Dimensions

image: 27.3 x 19.6 cm (10 3/4 x 7 11/16 in.)
30.9 x 23.1 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., graphite E. Avery
inscription: printed in frame around picture, clockwise from l.l. (then r-l on bottom panel): PLAGUE, SMALLPOX, CHOLERA, TUBERCULOSIS, HBV, INFLUENZA, HIV, HCV, LYME DISEASE, CRUTZFELD-JACOB DISEASE, DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA, EBOLA, WEST NILE FEVER, ANTHRAX.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: 9/100

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
Object Number: 17.2007
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/22/2016 - 03/11/2016; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/02/2023 - 12/20/2023

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