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The albatross with arrow through heart (Illustration to Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner series, plate 2) (1929)

David Jones

engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

The albatross with arrow through heart (Illustration to Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner series, plate 2) (1929)

© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Physical Object Description:

The albatross with arrow through heart, and figures in bird's nest beneath; proof of plate 2 of Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner'. Engraving, 1929. Signed, dated, titled, annotated: "2nd Illustn" and numbered 21/30

Technique:

Engraving

Dimensions:

17.7 x 13.6 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.116.3

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by A. M. Hind (1880-1957) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1942; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

Relationship:

Arthur Mayger 'A. M.' Hind Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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David Jones
The albatross with arrow through heart (Illustration to Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner series, plate 2) (1929)

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