Cleveland Museum of Art

The Queen of the Fishes: Plate 6

Lucien Pissarro

Date

1894

Medium

color woodcut

Culture

England, 19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Pissarro, son of the French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, moved to England in 1890. By 1894 he and his wife, Esther Bensusan Pissarro, had bought a printing press and established the Eragny Press. Influenced by William Morris, they were involved in every step of the production process: designing, cutting the woodblocks, setting type, and printing. The first book published by Ergany Press, The Queen of the Fishes, is based on an old fairy tale in which a peasant boy and girl escape the hardships of their lives by fantasizing that they have been turned into a giant oak and a splendid fish, respectively.

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