The certificate

Every print ships with a certificate. It names the work, its number in the artist's own hand-kept register, the medium of the original, and the paper and size of your reproduction.

It carries a registration number that belongs to your copy alone — for example, PW-2233-K7MQ. The first two letters identify the artist. The number that follows is the work's number in his own catalogue, written by hand long before this shop existed. The last four characters belong to your copy and nothing else.

It is not a count. The number does not say how many prints of this work exist, and two certificates side by side will not tell you either. We do not number prints in sequence, because we do not cap them.

Every registration number is recorded in our archive against the work, the size and the date. If you ever need one confirmed, write to us and quote it.

The certificate is issued by Divine Editions and signed for the estate by Angelika Hannig-Wirth.

What it does not say

It does not describe the print as one of a fixed edition, because there is no fixed edition. It does not say the signature is applied by hand, because it is printed.

The band across the top of the certificate itself is a photograph of the surface Peter Wirth worked on for years — the board beneath the paper, marked by everything that was ever laid on it.