Menschen der Zeit Printed Area Measurement_33 x 37 cm

Menschen der Zeit Printed Area Measurement_33 x 37 cmSigned limited edition screenprint Colour screenprint, sheet size 78 x 57. 5 cms, signed by the artist and inscribed 'AP' (Artists Proof) in pencil; Kelpra Studio number 'K7275' stamped on the verso. From In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part, a portfolio of 50 prints published in an edition of 150, plus a small number of artists proofs. R. B. Kitaj (1932 2007) was an American artist of Jewish heritage, who spent

Ortelius’ map of the western Balkans drew on the cartography of Augustin Hirschvogel

and a sixth was published after his death by his son

Servia etc

Theydon Garnon

The pyramids are shown rising from a plain

with the arms of contemporary Alderman Sir Thomas Chitty and views of East India House and Westminster Hall in the panel at the foot

three ward plans on one sheet

untrimmed in near-contemporary paper wrappers (they incorporate printer's waste from what seems to be a critical edition of Voltaire

which only existed between 1837 and 1842

while a mailed fist emerging from the North Sea delivers a further devastating blow (presumably representing the Imperial Navy’s High Seas Fleet

It was first published in 1756 (a year after the first folio edition) and was reprinted 1760 before our edition of 1766

and wear where the maps have been re-folded