"Nathaniel Hawthorne Posing with a Formally Dressed Gopher" by Dennis Corrigan, Amer., (B. 1944) POR

"Nathaniel Hawthorne Posing with a Formally Dressed Gopher" by Dennis Corrigan, Amer., (B. 1944) POREtching & Aquatint, ca. 1975, AAA ed. of 250, 9 3 8 x 12 1 8, signed and inscribed AP in pencil, with the printers blindstamp lower right corner, on Arches Buff wove paper. A delightful and detailed fantasy by Corrigan, well known for his complex witty, satirical and surreal etched portraits of notable historical figures.

Lawrence Kupferman is renoun for his distinctive precisionist  drypoints of victorian houses and Boston neighborhoods

This impression is 10-3/16 x 13-9/16

center margin

focused on the work of American printmakers with ties to Connecticut

from the edition of ca

tape stain verso top edge and recto top right corner

The fully deckle edged support sheet looks it's 80-90 years

I have not encountered this image before

4-1/4 x 6-7/8

creases to top left margin corner

While the ed

12-7/8 x 9-1/8