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Illustration to ‘Daphnis and Chloë' by Longus (A. Zwemmer, London, 1937), pp 11, 147, and 258 (1937)

Aristide Maillol

colour woodcut, in sanguine ink, on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Illustration to ‘Daphnis and Chloë' by Longus (A. Zwemmer, London, 1937), pp 11, 147, and 258 (1937)

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

Details

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Materials:

Sanguine ink, Sanguine ink

Physical Object Description:

Vignettes to pages 11, 147, 258: three goats; proof of colour woodcut illustration, printed in sanguine ink, to Longus' 'Daphnis and Chloë' (London: A. Zwemmer, 1937)

Technique:

Woodcut, Woodcut

Dimensions:

9.2 x 6.6 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.227

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945

Ownership history:

Purchased by A. M. Hind (1880-1957) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1937; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

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