(Three choral singers) - from Ave Maria by Thomas a Kempis

 

Dietz Edzard

  1893 - 1963 (biography)

1920  

drypoint 

11 5/8 x 3 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

52 of 75  

editioned in pencil 

 

heavy cream wove 

published 

Joh. Enschede & Zonen, Amsterdam 

15429 

$225.00 

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.