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Barabas in his Counting-house (The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta Series) (1933)

Eric William Ravilious

wood-engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Barabas in his Counting-house (The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta Series) (1933)

Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Materials:

Paper

Physical Object Description:

Stout man in vault, weighing and bagging money; proof of wood-engraved illustration from Christopher Marlowe's 'The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta' (1590), 1933. Signed

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

17.8 x 10.8 cm

Accession Number:

1936,0613.135

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1936

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1934; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1936

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Literature, Judaism, Theatres

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Artist Bio

Eric William Ravilious
Barabas in his Counting-house (The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta Series) (1933)

Artworks by Eric William Ravilious

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