Gamle Lise i Klitten (Old Lise in the Dunes) (1923)

Christian Asmussen

woodcut on thin tissue paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Gamle Lise i Klitten (Old Lise in the Dunes) (1923)

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

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Physical Object Description:

An old woman seated on grass with hands clasped. Woodcut on thin tissue paper. Signed in pencil and with "Eget tryk No.10/50".

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

23 x 24 cm

Accession Number:

1930,0111.55

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1930

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with the Prints and Drawings Fund, 1926; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1930

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Woman, Dune

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