The Beginning, Plate 9, from: Illustrations for Fourteen Poems by C. P. Cavafy

David Hockney (b. 1937) The Beginning, Plate 9, from: Illustrations for Fourteen Poems by C. P. Cavafy etching, 1966, on Crisbrook handmade paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 3/75, (there were a further 45 signed impressions and an unsigned book edition of 550), published by Editions Alecto, London, 1967, with their inkstamp verso, the full sheet, pale time-staining around the image, pinpoint foxing across the sheet, otherwise in good condition Plate: 350 x 220 mm., Sheet: 570 x 404 mm