A black ink print showing stacked hands and the handwritten poem "The Hand That Signed the Paper" by Dylan Thomas.

Prints

The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City

1960

Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (50.5 × 42.9 cm) Plate: 13 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (35.2 × 29.8 cm)
Accession number
96.198.6
Acquired
1996
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee
Edition
39/50 | 12 APs
Publication
Printed by Andersen-Lamb Photogravure Corporation; published by Morris Gallery
Department
collection

About this work

Peter Grippe, The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City, 1960. Etching, sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (50.5 × 42.9 cm) Plate: 13 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (35.2 × 29.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 96.198.6

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