A Young Dr. Faustus Receives the Stigmatum [illustration for the book Morti, 500,000 infanti] by Wilder Mayo Bentley
A Young Dr. Faustus Receives the Stigmatum [illustration for the book Morti, 500,000 infanti]
Wilder Mayo Bentley
Title
A Young Dr. Faustus Receives the Stigmatum [illustration for the book Morti, 500,000 infanti]
Artist
Year
1995
Technique
engraving
Image Size
4 1/4 x 2 13/16" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
not stated, but fewer than 20 impressions
Annotations
titled in pencil in lower margin and dated above signature; artist's initials in plate in lower right corner of image
Reference
Paper
heavy antique-white wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
WMB113
Price
SOLD
Description
According to the artist, Young Dr. Faustus Receives the Stigmatum, is an illustration for a book entitled "Morti, 500,000 infanti" which was made in protest of the Gulf War. He printed extra impressions so that he would give or sell them separately but states that fewer than twenty impressions were printed from the plate. The book was published in an edition of five and is in the Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley and the Rosicrucian Museum of San Jose.