Plate 132 · 1948

The Inland Sea

The Inland Sea began as a pencil sketch on the back of a ration book, drawn by the junior partner while waiting out a fog. The 1948 plate keeps the pencil's hesitations on purpose: the shorelines wobble where the fog lifted unevenly, and the note in the lower margin reads, in his hand, fog again, better luck Tuesday. It is the only plate in the house signed by its surveyor twice.

Plate

Copper, hand-engraved

State

1st of 1, 1948

Paper

Chine collé on wove

Edition

95 impressions

Margins

Full with surveyor's note

Reference

MC-IS-48

This is a demonstration catalogue. Reserving logs your interest in the page only: nothing is sent, nothing is charged, and the impression, like the house, is invented.