Morning with the Swiss Family Robinson (Illustration to Johann David Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson) (1930)

Pamela D'Avigdor Nathan

wood-engraving, on thin paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Morning with the Swiss Family Robinson (Illustration to Johann David Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson) (1930)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Materials:

Thin paper

Physical Object Description:

Family group below treehouse, one child riding an ostrich, woman cooking and man digging. 1930 Wood-engraving, on thin paper. Signed with initials on block. Signed, dated, titled and numbered 13/50.

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

30 x 24.8 cm

Accession Number:

1933,0408.81

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1933

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, 1930-33; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1933

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Families, Literature

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