The lithograph Pledge was executed at the same time as Promise (reproduced Rauschenberg Graphic Art , 1970, p.19 no.57) in late summer 1968. Both works incorporate magazine and newspaper images, a central feature of Rauschenberg"s paintings and prints . The photographic transfers used in Pledge , reading from left to right and from top to bottom, are: a motor car with a horse"s head protruding from the back right-hand side window; a strip of three images of baseball players; a detail of a girl"s face which closely resembles the Mona Lisa ; a train crash; a farmer with a box of plants (a reverse image of that u...
