Research Catalog

Title

Les Erinnyes : tragédie antique / Leconte de Lisle ; illustrée des compositions et gravures à l'eau forte de François Kupka.

Author

Leconte de Lisle, 1818-1894.

Publication

Paris : Librairie de la Collection des dix : A. Romagnol, 'editeur, [1908]

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Details

Additional Authors

Kupka, František, 1871-1957.

Description

89 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.); 37 cm. or 29 cm.

Subjects

• Kupka, Eugénie, > d. 1963 > Provenance
• Watercolors
• Metal
• Clytemnestra (Greek mythology) > Drama
• Drawings
• Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) > Drama
• Copper (Metal)
• Erinyes (Greek mythology) > Drama
• Mythology, Greek, in art
• Printing plates > France > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Drawings.
• Watercolors.
• Metal.
• Copper (Metal).
• Printing plates – France – 20th century.

Note

• 300 copies printed, of which 10 (numbered 1-10) were on large Vélin d'Arches paper (37 cm.) with 3 states of the plates, and 100 (numbered 11-110) were on Japon or Arches paper (29 cm.) with 3 states of the plates.
• Printed in red and black.
• Illustrations: 75 prints from 25 plates : etching, aquatint ; full-page (3) or smaller. Comprise 3 full-page ill., 21 headpieces and 1 tailpiece, all with plate proofs in 2 states appended: a pure-etched state and a state before letters. For the full-page ill., the latter state contains remarques. Printed by A. Porcabœuf on Perrigot-Masure Arches paper. -- 22 prints from 11 blocks : wood engraving, col. ; full-page (1) or smaller. All with plate proofs appended. -- Text within colored woodcut borders.

Indexed In (note)

• Carteret, L. Trésor, 1875-1945
• Ray, G.N. Art of the French illustrated book

Binding (note)

• Dark brown crushed levant morocco, gilt, by Canape, 1909. Sides within a frame of fillets surrounded by a border of Greek design. Doublé with morocco of the same color as the sides; the front panel inlaid with the copper plate to the headpiece on p. 66, and the back panel with that to the final tailpiece, both surrounded by a scrollwork frame inlaid in red. With gilt edges and lining of silver-grey grosgrain silk. Original paper covers bound in. In loose leather protective cover, tooled and lettered; inserted in slipcase.
• Dark red crushed levant morocco, gilt, with dark green crushed levant morocco doublures; dark red grosgrain endleaves. In dark red marbled paper covered slipcase with dark red morocco trim. Original paper covers bound in.

Contents

Klytaimnestra. Première partie -- Orestes. Deuxième partie.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1908 00-131

OCLC

NYPG00-B6838

Author

Leconte de Lisle, 1818-1894.

Title

Les Erinnyes : tragédie antique / Leconte de Lisle ; illustrée des compositions et gravures à l'eau forte de François Kupka.

Imprint

Paris : Librairie de la Collection des dix : A. Romagnol, 'editeur, [1908] (Evreux : Charles Hérissey)

Indexed In:

Carteret, L. Trésor, 1875-1945, IV, p. 235

Ray, G.N. Art of the French illustrated book, 387

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy 1: No. 70, on Arches paper (29 cm.).

Spencer Coll. copy 2: No. 1 (37 cm). With hand-lettered leaf inserted at beginning: "Ces Erinnyes, ma chère Ninie, sont venues chez nous ... Tu travaillais aux documents et ton Frank les a dessinné [sic] et gravé [sic]." "Ninie" is Eugénie (Nini) Straub, afterwards Kupka. Full-page watercolor on inserted leaf preceding t.p.; 18 watercolor vignettes in bottom margins of p. 10-11, 18-19, 28-29, 32-33, 40-41, 54-55, 56-57, 62-63, 78-79.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy 1: Prospectus ([6] p.) bound in at end.

Binding

(Spencer Coll. copy 1): Dark brown crushed levant morocco, gilt, by Canape, 1909. Sides within a frame of fillets surrounded by a border of Greek design. Doublé with morocco of the same color as the sides; the front panel inlaid with the copper plate to the headpiece on p. 66, and the back panel with that to the final tailpiece, both surrounded by a scrollwork frame inlaid in red. With gilt edges and lining of silver-grey grosgrain silk. Original paper covers bound in. In loose leather protective cover, tooled and lettered; inserted in slipcase.

Spencer Coll. copy 2): Dark red crushed levant morocco, gilt, with dark green crushed levant morocco doublures; dark red grosgrain endleaves. In dark red marbled paper covered slipcase with dark red morocco trim. Original paper covers bound in.

Local Subject

Kupka, Eugénie, d. 1963 Provenance.

Added Author

Kupka, František, 1871-1957. Artist

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1908 00-131

Spencer Coll. French 1908 (Leconte de Lisle, C. M. R. Erinnyes)