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Illustration to ‘Daphnis and Chloë' by Longus (A. Zwemmer, London, 1937), p. 26 (1937)

Aristide Maillol

colour woodcut, in sanguine ink, on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Illustration to ‘Daphnis and Chloë' by Longus (A. Zwemmer, London, 1937), p. 26 (1937)

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

Details

Classification:

Print

Materials:

Sanguine ink

Physical Object Description:

Vignette to page 26: young woman holding nude (?) young man from the back, he covering his head with his arms, tree behind; proof of colour woodcut illustration, printed in sanguine ink, to Longus' 'Daphnis and Chloë' (London: A. Zwemmer, 1937)

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

8.4 x 8.4 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.230

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

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

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Greek and Roman mythology, Lovers

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Artist Bio

Aristide Maillol
Illustration to ‘Daphnis and Chloë' by Longus (A. Zwemmer, London, 1937), p. 26 (1937)

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