New Year's greeting-card PTT

1956

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: wood engraving on light tan wove paper
Dimensions: image (hexagon): 13.6 x 15.2 cm (5 3/8 x 6 in.) sheet: 15.3 x 20.4 cm (6 x 8 1/16 in.)
Collection no.: 1983.109.32
Attribution: By the artist

About this artwork

New Year's greeting-card PTT — M.C. Escher. 1956.

Medium: wood engraving on light tan wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): image (hexagon): 13.6 x 15.2 cm (5 3/8 x 6 in.) sheet: 15.3 x 20.4 cm (6 x 8 1/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1983.109.32. Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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