Myra Henshaw's will – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures Myra Henshaw's will in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Myra Henshaw's will
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Few pictures in this group tie so directly to a single novel as this woodcut, which takes its subject from Myra Henshaw's will in Willa Cather's *My Mortal Enemy*. Knopf published Cather's novella in 1926, and the print was made for that edition by William Addison Dwiggins, a typographer and book designer who did much of his illustration work for the firm. His bold black-and-white cutting suits Cather's spare story of a troubled marriage, and it shows how publishers of the 1920s paired fiction with graphic art.
| Created / published | c1926. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut. |
| Notes | Wood cuty by W.A. Dwiggins, copyrighted by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Illus. in: Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy. Ref. copy may be in The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Fall 1982, p. 249. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Law. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155011 |
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