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Sic transit gloria mundi (circa 1924)

William Giles

colour woodcut with added hand-colouring

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Sic transit gloria mundi (circa 1924)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print

Physical Object Description:

Two peafowl; a peahen in the foreground, pecking at the grass, the peacock in the background, at the centre facing forwards, tail fully displayed. c.1924
Colour woodcut with added hand-colouring. Lettered within image with artist's monogram, and inscribed below image in graphite with artist's signature and: "No 13/100".

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

33.1 x 44.3 cm

Accession Number:

1930,0111.73

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1930

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist by the Contemporary Art Society, 11 July 1924; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1930

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Artist Bio

William Giles
Sic transit gloria mundi (circa 1924)

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