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clouds 2nd edition

A who's who of the clouds in the sky are handprinted in a cloud-like mass of circular diagrams on sky blue, handmade Moriki Kozo paper from Japan, in this second edition linoleum block print. The clouds represented are shown as they would appear in the sky; the lower altitude clouds are lowest, the mid-altitude clouds in the middle and the high altitude clouds at the top. We have cumulonimbus, stratocumulus and cumulus at the bottom. There are three types of altocumulus and one altostratus in the middle. The top level contains cirrocumulus and two types of cirrus clouds. Each is denoted by its own symbol.

 

The sheets are 17.5 inches wide by 12.6 inches tall (44.4 cm by 32 cm). The second edition contains 4 prints.

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Uploaded on February 27, 2011
Taken on February 26, 2011