Summary
This is the second of a pair of lithographs bearing the title Visitation which Rauschenberg made in 1965. Both were printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions, New York, Visitation I in an edition of 42, Visitation II in an edition of 44. In each print the photographic imagery and its arrangement within the composition are the same: at top right there is a horse and jockey; to the left of centre, the head of a trumpet-player; at right centre, a larger image of a domestic interior, and at bottom centre, a farmer in checked shirt and peaked cap standing in a ploughed field and inspecting a box of plants...