COLLECTION NAME:
RIT CARY GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION
Record
Filename:
cc_csc0161_femaleforme
Identifier:
cc_csc0161_femaleforme
Title:
The Female Forme
Creator:
Lynne Avadenka
Subject:
Wood types (Printing)
Subject:
Alphabet in art
Subject:
Letterpress printing
Subject:
Hebrew type
Summary:
Portfolio of prints made by Lynne Avadenka at RIT in Summer 2021. The prints were made using the vintage metal and wood type from the Cary Graphic Arts Collection.
Each print shows in red the Hebrew or Yiddish name of a Jewish women printer who worked in East Europe and Constantinople around the 15–19th centuries. The first name is set in bigger letters than the family name below it. The circular red text at the left is a part of the Hebrew Proverbs 31:13 "She works willingly with her hands", ותעש בחפץ כפיה. The single blue letter at the bottom right of each print composes this Hebrew sentence when all the prints are set one next to the other from right to left, the Hebrew language reading direction.
Each print shows in red the Hebrew or Yiddish name of a Jewish women printer who worked in East Europe and Constantinople around the 15–19th centuries. The first name is set in bigger letters than the family name below it. The circular red text at the left is a part of the Hebrew Proverbs 31:13 "She works willingly with her hands", ותעש בחפץ כפיה. The single blue letter at the bottom right of each print composes this Hebrew sentence when all the prints are set one next to the other from right to left, the Hebrew language reading direction.
Digital Publisher:
Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT Libraries - Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Date of Original:
2021
Date of Digitization:
2021
Broad Type:
still image
Specific Type:
posters
Digital File Format:
jpeg
Physical Format:
broadsides
Dimensions of Original:
70 x 50 cm
Language:
Hebrew
Language:
Yiddish
Language:
English
Original Item Location:
CARCSC.0161
Library Collection:
The Female Forme
Digital Project:
2022_0004_avadenka
Place:
New York - Rochester
Rights:
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