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Illustration to ‘Daphnis and Chloë' by Longus (A. Zwemmer, London, 1937), p. 92 (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. 92 (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 92: young woman being carried off kicking by bearded man, wearing hat; proof of colour woodcut illustration, printed in sanguine ink, to Longus' 'Daphnis and Chloë' (London: A. Zwemmer, 1937)

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

9.2 x 8.5 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.246

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

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