Explore Escher's Engravings in High Resolution

The Boston Public Library has digitized several dozens of Escher prints

Enigmatic and brilliant, the work of M. C. Escher is worthy of admiration. That's why institutions that keep some of his engravings safe often exhibit them publicly so that we all can enjoy them. One of these institutions is the Boston Public Library — the largest municipal library in the United States — who has digitized almost a hundred of his engravings.

Anyone who accesses its archives can explore them in great detail and get to know all the nooks and crannies of the impossible constructions that Escher devised and drew throughout his career.

Anyone familiar with Escher's work knows that a simple glance is not enough to appreciate all the details and features that the Dutch artist hid in his drawings. From impossible perspectives to the compositions that merge with each other, or the curious characters that populate them, every detail of these engravings is worthy of study. That is why the Boston Public Library now shares digitized versions of at least 87 of these works.

The file of each work, in addition to showing us information about the date of creation, the title, or the technique used, also has a viewer that allows us to explore the engravings closely, helping us to know a little more about the secrets of an enigmatic artist loved worldwide.

You can see all the M. C. Escher's engravings on the Boston Public Library website.

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