Men cutting dead wood on heathland (Illustration to Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native) (1929)

Clare Marie Veronica Leighton

wood-engraving on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Men cutting dead wood on heathland (Illustration to Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native) (1929)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Physical Object Description:

Men cutting dead wood on heathland, woman standing behind, wood-engraved book-illustration to p. 300 of Thomas Hardy's 'The Return of the Native', Macmillan/Harper & Brothers, 1929. Signed, numbered 1/30 and annotated: "set 1"

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

12.7 x 9.7 cm

Accession Number:

1931,1114.20

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1931

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1929; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1931

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Farming

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