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Moku Hanga: Annie Bissett

Dorothy Bradford Comes to America.

by Annie Bissett (b. 1955)
Self-carved and self-printed moku hanga (Japanese woodblock print)
Signed, dated, titled, and numbered in pencil
Date: 2009
Edition: 30
Printed with 7 carved blocks and 22 hand-rubbed color layers
Paper size: 22 x 9-1/2 inches; image size: 19-7/8 x 8 inches
drowned.'
$450.

The poem, carved into the image just below the water line and written by the artist reads, 'On a bright sunny day while her husband was away Bradford's wife Dorothy May slipped overboard into the bay and drowned.'

"This print is dedicated to the memory of Dorothy May Bradford, 1597-1620, first wife of William Bradford. Dorothy slipped overboard from the Mayflower while it was moored in Provincetown Harbor and drowned. As the water was shallow, and there were no reports of storms while the boat was anchored there, some scholars speculate that Dorothy's drowning was a suicide." Annie Bissett