(Mary in Rapture) - from Ave Maria by Thomas a Kempis

 

Dietz Edzard

  1893 - 1963 (biography)

1920  

drypoint 

12 1/2 x 9" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

52 of 75  

editioned in pencil 

 

japan nacre 

published 

Joh. Enschede & Zonen, Amsterdam 

15426 

$300.00 

Thomas a' Kempis was a German-Dutch canon regular born in 1380 who authored The Imitation of Christ, often regarded as the best-known Christian devotional writing. Edzard executed a portfolio of five drypoints to commemorate the book in 1920.