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Doode spreeuw (Dead starling)

Johan Frederik Engelbert ten Klooster

woodcut on thin paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Doode spreeuw (Dead starling)

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

Materials:

Thin paper

Physical Object Description:

Dead starling laying on its side with crooked claws Woodcut on thin paper. Inscribed below image with title, signature and production details, in pencil: "Doode spreeuw", "handdruk" and "Ten Klooster"; inscribed on the mount, in pencil: "Dead sparrow. 72".

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

26.6 x 26.3 cm

Accession Number:

1928,0310.72

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1928

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased from The Redfern Gallery, London by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1919-28 ; presented to Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1928

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson The Redfern Gallery, London Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Artist Bio

Johan Frederik Engelbert ten Klooster
Doode spreeuw (Dead starling)

Artworks by Johan Frederik Engelbert ten Klooster

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