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The lovers (Illustration F. B. Young's 'Portrait of a village', London: 1937) (1937)

Joan Hassall

wood-engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

The lovers (Illustration F. B. Young's 'Portrait of a village', London: 1937) (1937)

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:

Couple walking past houses screened by trees; proof of wood-engraved illustration to p.171 of F B Young's 'Portrait of a village', 1937. Inscription: Signed, titled, numbered 2/20.

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

3.8 x 10.8 cm

Accession Number:

1939,0730.40

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1939

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted by the artist to the Prints and Drawings Fund of the Contemporary Art Society, 1938; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1939

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