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(Angel with book) - from Ave Maria by Thomas a Kempis by Dietz Edzard

(Angel with book) - from Ave Maria by Thomas a Kempis by Dietz Edzard

(Angel with book) - from Ave Maria by Thomas a Kempis

Dietz Edzard

Title

(Angel with book) - from Ave Maria by Thomas a Kempis

 
Artist

Dietz Edzard

  1893 - 1963 (biography)
Year
1920  
Technique
drypoint 
Image Size
5 7/16 x 3 7/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
52 of 75  
Annotations
editioned in pencil 
Reference
 
Paper
japan nacre 
State
published 
Publisher
Joh. Enschede & Zonen, Amsterdam 
Inventory ID
15430 
Price
SOLD
Description
Thomas a' Kempis was a German-Dutch canon regular born in 1380 who authored The Imitation of Christ, often regarded as the best-known Christian devotional writing. Edzard executed a portfolio of five drypoints to commemorate the book in 1920.