"In 1969 Borofsky started writing numbers in sequence, starting with 1 and covering both sides of his sheets; he has continued this sequence at intervals ever since. In the early 1970s he found little drawings and scribbles intruding into the count and he began to make paintings of these images. He decided to identify them and all his subsequent works with the number he was on in his counting - hence the title of this portfolio is ‘2740475’. It contains seven screenprints and six etchings placed alternately (starting and finishing with a screenprint), thus creating a counterpoint of imagery from the flat silhouette of a figure wearing a hat and carrying a briefcase to the tiny etching plates on which a variety of images are drawn... [This etching] is on a triangular plate and includes a head with long animal ears which the artist has described as being a self-portrait as an animal, with a reference to the heightened sensitivity of animal ears" (Tate Gallery, The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London: 1986).