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The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Moves Toward Infinity

Artist Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)
Title The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Moves Toward Infinity (L'oeil, comme un baloon bizarre se dirige vers L'infini)
Plate Number Plate 1
Series To Edgar Poe
Date 1882
Medium Lithograph on paper with chine collé
Dimensions Image: 10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in. (26.4 x 19.7 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/2 x 12 3/8 in. (44.5 x 31.4 cm)
Credit Line Transfer from the Lilly Library, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 2013.147.1

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Printer Imp. Lemercier & C.ie r. de Seine 57
Publisher G. Fischbacher (Paris)
Author Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809 - 1849)
Plate Number Plate 1
Series Title To Edgar Poe
Foreign Language Series Title A Edgar Poe

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