Design for a stage scene (1908-1924)

Edward Gordon Craig

wood-engraving, on tissue paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Physical Object Description:

Design for a stage scene: two figures in combat, with sticks and shields, at foot of cliff; 1924 impression. 1908 Wood-engraving, on tissue paper. Signed on block with monogram. Signed with initials, annotated with date of printing, dated and annotated: "2nd State. Only 150 Copies printed - Copy No. 41" and "6".

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

8.2 x 7.4 cm

Accession Number:

1927,0212.105

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1927

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, 1919-27; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1927

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Theatres

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