Richard Hricko: October Large The same plates were used

The same plates were used later in the Noorthouck's History of London (1722) with no modification except for the upper margin

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and individual building footprints are carefully recorded

While Baskin may be directly alluding to these works

he presents these figures in ways that make their arms and torsos seem elongated

Richard Hricko: October Large The same plates were usedWood engraving on paper. 1978. Edition 2 5. Handcrafted wood frame with acid free, archival materials all done expertly in house. Richard Hricko is a printmaker whose work presents composite details of the natural and built environment that honor nature, industry and the course of decay and recovery. Influenced by the tradition of ruins in Italian art, he similarly expresses the passage of time and invokes longing and the pathos of things forgotten