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Title-page: figure seated at base of tree (Illustration Christopher Hassall's 'Penthesperon', Heinemann: 1938) (1938)

Joan Hassall

wood-engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Title-page: figure seated at base of tree (Illustration Christopher Hassall's 'Penthesperon', Heinemann: 1938) (1938)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Physical Object Description:

Title-page showing figure seated at base of tree; proof for wood-engraved illustration to the poem by Christopher Hassall' 'Penthesperon', Heinemann 1938. Signed and titled.

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

6.3 x 7.4 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.112

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1939

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by A. M. Hind (1880-1957) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1939; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

Relationship:

Arthur Mayger 'A. M.' Hind Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Artist Bio

Joan Hassall
Title-page: figure seated at base of tree (Illustration Christopher Hassall's 'Penthesperon', Heinemann: 1938) (1938)

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