![]() According to Hockney, "They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very, very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. The artist illustrated six stories: 'The Little Sea Hare', 'Fundevogel', 'Rapunzel', 'The Boy who left Home to learn Fear', 'Old Rinkrank' and 'Rumpelstilzchen'. 400 books and 100 portfolios plus artist’s proofs were printed. Hockney worked on this series with Paul Cornwall-Jones at Petersburg Press over the course of a year. This print from our publisher's archives is one of thirty-nine etchings from David Hockney’s 1969 "Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm". This is one of eleven images recently found in our archive which we have decided to make available. Unsigned: apart from the published edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios. Text printed letterpress and “The Tower Had One Window” etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP" Sheet from “Rapunzel” story (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Hockney's tight crosshatching enhances the menacing form of the tower, contrasted with the dense, soft grass and the elegant gesture of her hair. This print pictures Rapunzel's tower prison with her cascading hair nearly reaching the forest floor. Captured in this scene is the moment a King's son came across the tower and fell in love with her sweet singing, beseeching her: 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.' Though the sorcerer banishes Rapunzel and maims the prince, they are of course ultimately reunited to live happily together. Perhaps the most famous story from the Grimm Brothers, Rapunzel spins the tale of a beautiful young princess locked away by an evil sorceress. ![]() ![]() The shipping may require additional handling days to require the licence according to the final destination of the artwork. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export regardless of the work’s market price. ![]() “The most original and magnificent of all city-atlases, which drew on the work of accomplished topographical artists and…reproduced it in pictorial compositions of great charm and individuality”. The sixth and final volume appeared in 1617, just before the extensive devastation wreaked by the Thirty Years’War. The first volume of this collection was published at Cologne in 1572 the others following in 1575, 1581, 15. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest printed atlas in the history of world cartography and the first atlas totally dedicated to topographical views. Good conditions, with a usual medial fold. Presented in the table as “Capital of the Kingdom of Spain” (the capital moved under Philip II at this moment 1561 precisely). Very nice B/W Aquatint representing a View of Toledo from the opposite hills, on the other shore of the river Tajo. Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Toledo", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. ![]()
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