Collection Online as of December 7, 2023
Laurels Number One
Now, Ever Alas, My Mater Dear, I Fear a Deadly Storm
Part of a set. See all set records
Color wood engraving
Support: Original pasteboard portfolios. Inside folders of handmade paper and hand printing by Douglas Howell
Sheet: 23.7 x 28.3 cm (9 5/16 x 11 1/8 in.); Image: 20.7 x 25.2 cm (8 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund 1998.183.b
Edition: numbered 42 on justification slip
Location
not on view
Description
Chris Ritter, director of the Laurel Gallery, New York, planned that Laurels would be a periodical with literature, prints, original calligraphy, handset type, and handmade papers by Douglass Howell. The first issue, which appeared in May 1947, included prints by Joan Miró, Anne Ryan, Stanley William Hayter, Reginald Marsh, George Constant, and Will Barnet. Only four issues were published.