Lithograph on two sheets of cream Velin Arches mould-made paper dyed blackish purple

Printed from four zinc plates in blue, black, lilac and red-brown with hand colouring in black and blue gouache and yellow wax crayon

Signed and dated in pencil on both sheets

Trial proof aside from the edition of 80 (there are in addition 15 artist's proofs)

Printed and hand coloured by Alan Cox and Don Bessant at Sky Editions, London

Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd, London in 1979

Paper size (total): 1500 x 1060 mm

Frame size: 1640 x 1160 mm

This work is currently only sold framed

Catalogue reference: Heenk 38

Public collections include: The Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London; The British Council, London; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.

Gallery label from the Tate, April 2019:

'This print is dedicated to the art dealer and publisher Bernard Jacobson. It shows the view from a balcony in India at night; the yellow forms and blue dots represent banana leaves. The idea for the print grew out of Hodgkin’s abandoned project to illustrate EM Foster’s book A Passage to India. This was one of the first prints to be on the same scale as Hodgkin’s paintings. It is also one of the most technically complicated prints he has ever made. Not only are layers of printing and hand colouring interleaved, but each sheet of paper was hand-dyed using vegetable dyes to achieve its rich dark colour.'