Materials:
Sanguine ink
Physical Object Description:
Vignette to page 133: young couple about to make love amongst bushes; proof of colour woodcut illustration, printed in sanguine ink, to Longus' 'Daphnis and Chloë' (London: A. Zwemmer, 1937)
Technique:
Woodcut
Dimensions:
8.3 x 8.2 cm
Accession Number:
1945,1208.255
Credit:
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945
Ownership history:
Purchased by A. M. Hind (1880-1957) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1937-45; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945