• Search Icon
  • Toggle Menu
  • Close Menu

The Art

Search for information about all the works of art and craft we have donated to museums

Lady in the dark (Illustration to an unidentified publication) (before 1939)

Joan Hassall

wood-engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Lady in the dark (Illustration to an unidentified publication) (before 1939)

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, Book Illustration

Physical Object Description:

Young woman seated at the bedside of an old woman; wood-engraved book-illustration, publication unidentified, n.d. Signed, titled and numbered 5/5.

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

9 x 8.9 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.113

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, 1939; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

The collection that owns this artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.

Artworks by Joan Hassall

Browse more relevant artworks.

You Might Also Like