Bosco Sacro (1926-1929)

Edward Bouverie Hoyton

etching on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

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Physical Object Description:

View through trees of farmer herding sheep, with ruined aqueduct on hill beyond to right. 1920s? Etching. Signed on matrix in graphite. Pastoral landscape, Bosco Sacro; foreground, plants, grass and two tree trunks; middle ground, a grove of trees, a stone wall and a shepherd herding a flock of sheep; background, ancient ruins (a Roman aqueduct?). Sky left unworked. Etched with varied lines including cross hatching (School of Art Aberystwyth University; PR1737).

Technique:

Etching

Dimensions:

17.5 x 22.6 cm

Accession Number:

1930,0111.178

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1930

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, 1926-30; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1930

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Farming, Bridges, Wood

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