Series: Tarot
Medium: Etching, aquatint
Dimensions: 4 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches (image) 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1986
Date finished: 2016
Edition: of 20

Series: The Wonders of the Heavens Displayed in Twenty Lectures
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: 6 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches (Plate) 6 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches (Sheet)
Artist details: British, 1763 - 1824
Publisher: Richard Phillips. London, 1821
Condition: Folds as issued.

Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer & Content Manager):
"The constellation ‘Libra’ was named over 3500 years ago for containing the point in the sky where the sun crosses the equator when it travels from the northern to southern hemisphere (autumnal equinox). It has since become a zodiac sign that represents balance and fairness, symbolized by a set of scales. This engraving, printed 200 years ago, resonates just as strongly today. When we slow down and look up at a clear night sky, we plug into something so much older and bigger than our own individual lives. We get to see just how big the world we live in really is."

#53059

Medium: Intaglio and linocut
Dimensions: 4 x 6 inches (image)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: British / Chinese, 1973
Date finished: 2009
Edition: of 20

Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer & Content Publisher):
"Wuon Gean Ho’s Devour V is from  a series of intaglios she created in 2009. This series begins with a woman asleep, laying on top of a tiger. The cat awakes first and begins walking around until the woman also awakes and opens her feral-looking eyes. They separate from one another, and begin sizing each other up as they circle. They grapple, but do eventually come to terms with each other (tiger licks the woman’s face) before dissolving into each other and  the landscape. Devour V illustrates the moment when the woman is fully awake to her struggle with full realization of her circumstances and is actively fighting. Part of being human is coming to terms with our own wild cats that can wake up in us. Eventually, there will be peace and acceptance, but we first have to face them. Ho makes this struggle look sensual and chaotic with her use of subtle plate tone wiping and overlapping hatch marks in the plate. She effectively captures how it can feel to be rolling about with one’s own demons in the intimate space of our own heads."