Plate I · Perched upon a Bust of Pallas
Shown as the print file we send to the printer, not a photograph.
No. 001 / dark academia
The Raven
Édouard Manet · 1875 · after Poe
Three plates for a midnight dreary.
AUD 170.95 for three prints, delivery included
About AUD 57 a print · fits a standard 30 × 40 cm frame
Open edition, printed to order in Australia. Arrives within 14 days. Shipping details.
Printed to order, so no change-of-mind returns. Damaged, faulty or not as described? We replace it or refund you. Returns policy.
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- Set of three, each 30 × 40 cm
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- Archival matte paper, 250 gsm, acid-free
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- Sent rolled in a tube, ready for your own frame
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- From the Met's public domain collection, re-toned by us
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- Matte archival paper prints black as a deep, soft charcoal, without the shine of a screen.
The object
In 1875 Stéphane Mallarmé translated Poe's The Raven into French, and his friend Édouard Manet drew the plates for it in brushed ink. We have taken three of them and turned them over: the paper becomes night and the ink becomes bone, so the bird, the window and the lamp read as if lit by the last coal in the grate.
The plates
Select a plate to see the linework at print resolution.
IPerched upon a Bust of Pallas
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Date
- 1875
- Medium
- Transfer lithograph; final state of two
- Original
- Sheet, 54.5 × 35.5 cm
IIOpen Here I Flung the Shutter
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Date
- 1875
- Medium
- Transfer lithograph; final state of five
- Original
- Sheet, 54.2 × 35 cm
IIIThe Shadow that Lies Floating on the Floor
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Date
- 1875
- Medium
- Transfer lithograph; only state
- Original
- Sheet, 55 × 35 cm
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