Shankland, Hugh, Messer Pietro Mio. Marlborough, Wiltshire, Libanus Press, 28 July, 1985, 1985
- Call Number:
- MSS 17
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Shankland, Hugh
- Title(s):
- Messer Pietro Mio. Marlborough, Wiltshire, Libanus Press, 28 July, 1985.
- Date:
- 1985
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series II: Publications Designed or Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith
- Part of Collection:
- volume Moss no. 112
- Provenance:
- Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Boxed set of the seventeen wood engravings mounted in twelve window mats (302 x 258 mm); each signed by Richard Shirley Smith and numbered copy no. 23 of 100 copies and housed in a clamshell box covered in tan book cloth with pasted paper label 'Messer Pietro Mio The Engravings Richard Shirley Smith Libanus Press 1985' [Bain nos. 265-282]. Prospectus for the Messer Pietro Mio project together with a copy of Libanus Press, Book List for 1986 (4Pp.) laid in. The engravings for Messer Pietro Mio were cut between 1977 and 1985 and published in 1985. According to the prospectus the engravings reflect 'the metaphorical, heraldic and surreal elements contained in the letters.' They were the last major suite of wood engravings Shirley Smith produced before a detached retina at the age of fifty forced him to stop engraving and to concentrate on drawn images. According to Shirley Smith, only 30 of the projected 100 boxed sets of the engravings were actually assembled and distributed. A record for this item is also available in the <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onRequest" xlink:show="new" xlink:href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10478837">Yale University Library Catalog.</extref>
- Physical Description:
- 302 x 258 mm
- Finding Aid Title:
- Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5884.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396064
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- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396064?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1