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When winter wanes (1924)

William Giles

colour woodcut

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

When winter wanes (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 peacocks parading under a tree with bare branches. 1924 Colour woodcut. Signed in pencil and numbered "no.38". Annotated by another hand (? Harold Wright) with the title, date and edition number of 50 proofs.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

27.7 x 33.8 cm

Accession Number:

1929,0209.3

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1929

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, 1924; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1929

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Birds

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William Giles
When winter wanes (1924)

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