The Mountain Fortress (1881-1922)

Sydney Lee

etching and aquatint on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Classification:

Materials:

Ink, Paper

Physical Object Description:

View of a mountain with a fortress built on the summit, swathed in light, seen across the rooftops of a town in the foreground, which are cast in shadow, other mountains in the background; engraver's proof. Signed below the image by the engraver and annotated 'The Mountain Fortress. scraped aquatint Printed [?]Tc 100 proofs'.

Technique:

Etching, Aquatint

Dimensions:

45.5 x 53 cm

Accession Number:

1924,0209.156

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1924

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson for the Contemporary Art Society, 1922; presented to the British Museum, 1924

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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