
Fish in Baarn
12 Sep: 'At night fish woodcut idea.' 13 Sep: 'Started on it.' 07 Oct: 'Started on 1st block Fish.' 16 Oct: 'Started on 2nd block Fish.' 23 Oct: 'Started on 3rd block Fish.'
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Due to the latest change of displayed works, a number of works that are part of a series can now be seen in Room 1: nine (of the 25 in total) woodcuts from the Emblemata series Escher produced in 1931. Earlier we showed you Toadstool from this series. Today, we focus our attention on Butterfly. In this woodcut Escher puts a butterfly (a small tortoiseshell, a swallowtail, who knows?) in a richly ornamented palette of flowers and plants. Art historian G.J. Hoogewerff provided these Emblemata with a motto in Latin and a poem in Dutch.
M.C. Escher, XIX, Butterfly, woodcut, between March and June 1931
In this case:
‘Signum immortalitatis fragile admodum.'
Which translates roughly as:
12 Sep: 'At night fish woodcut idea.' 13 Sep: 'Started on it.' 07 Oct: 'Started on 1st block Fish.' 16 Oct: 'Started on 2nd block Fish.' 23 Oct: 'Started on 3rd block Fish.'