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The cuckoos (Illustration F. B. Young's 'Portrait of a village', London: 1937) (1937)

Joan Hassall

wood-engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

The cuckoos (Illustration F. B. Young's 'Portrait of a village', London: 1937) (1937)

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

Details

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Physical Object Description:

Four birds in flight; proof of wood-engraved illustration to F B Young's 'Portrait of a village, 1937. Signed, titled, numbered 5/20 and annotated: "p.3".

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

7.6 x 10.8 cm

Accession Number:

1939,0730.38

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1938

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Gifted by the artist to the Prints and Drawings Fund of the Contemporary Art Society, 1937; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1938

Relationship:

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

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Artist Bio

Joan Hassall
The cuckoos (Illustration F. B. Young's 'Portrait of a village', London: 1937) (1937)

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