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If You Want it Dead Strike at the Head

Sue Coe

If You Want it Dead Strike at the Head

1986

Scroll

Sue Coe

If You Want it Dead Strike at the Head

1986

Physical Qualities Offset etching, Sheet: 478 × 292 mm. (18 13/16 × 11 1/2 in.) Plate: 360 × 264 mm. (14 3/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Monroe Denton, in Honor of his Aunt, Dr. Ruth B. Miller
Object Number 1999.665
Collection Monroe Denton

Inscribed: Recto: BLC, in plate, 'IF YOU WANT IT DEAD STRIKE AT THE HEAD'; [various words throughout image]; BL, below image in graphite, '195/999'; BR, below image in graphite, 'Sue Coe 87' (signed); BRC, stamped in brown ink, penguin

Markings: BLC, 'COE'/Cat/'MURRAY' - none

Artist

Sue Coe

1950–2000

English, born 1951
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