Night piece to Julia (1925)

Arthur Rigden Read

colour woodcut on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Book Illustration, Print

Physical Object Description:

Semi-nude woman kneeling with patterned wrap, starry sky beyond. 1925 Colour woodcut in the Japanese manner, predominantly in blue, red, grey and beige. Signed, dated and titled.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

20.4 x 17.7 cm

Accession Number:

1926,0313.91

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1926

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1925; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1926

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Female Body

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