From the Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibit featured original hand-colored etchings created for Geisert’s book, “Roman Numerals I to MM”, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1996. Lessons of how to count Roman numerals are filled with fanciful depictions of pigs in hot-air balloons, pigs playing tug-of-war. and pigs romping about the farmyard.

Image: Arthur Geisert, Roman Numerals, Jacket Front, 1996, hand-colored etching, The Arthur Geisert Collection. Gift of Arthur and Bonnie Geisert, made possible by Jack and Mantea Schmid.