Artist Book by Catherine Mc Cue 'Macbeth' Hand coloured etchings to be updated

Artist: Catherine Mc Cue Boes

Australian:

Title: Macbeth dry points

Publisher: The Red Shoes Press

Date: 1990 recovered in 2013

Leaves: 4 with copper plate inserted into front cover

Size:15 x 13cm

Images: Hand colored dry points in watercolor. 

Housing: Black and red book cloth with black paper inserts, original copper plate in the front, double sided Japanese paper in Black/red inserts hand stitched book. 

Edition: 1/5

Printer: The artist.

Typeface:

References: From the Macbeth series This work was exhibited in a major exhibition at the Monash University Gallery References: From the Macbeth series This work was exhibited in a major exhibition at the Monash University Gallery Melbourne in 1990

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