Design for William Shakespeare's King Lear (1908-1924)

Edward Gordon Craig

wood-engraving on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Design for William Shakespeare's King Lear (1908-1924)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Materials:

Tissue paper

Physical Object Description:

Three figures at entrance to tunnel; 1924 impression. 1908 Wood-engraving, on tissue paper. Signed with initials, annotated with date of printing, dated and annotated: "S.2. Only 150 copies printed. copy 35." and "7".

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

10.8 x 10.8 cm

Accession Number:

1927,0212.103

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1927

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, 1919-27; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1927

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Literature, Theatres

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