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Night scene - Peking (1922)

Elizabeth Keith

colour woodcut in the Japanese manner

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Classification:

Print

Physical Object Description:

Stalls illuminated by lanterns, a fruit vendor to right. 1922 Colour woodcut in the Japanese manner. Lettered with title on block. Signed in red pencil. Bears artist's stamp with date.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

36.1 x 23.9 cm

Accession Number:

1926,0313.81

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1926

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1922-26; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1926

Subject:

Night, Topography

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