Nos Escadrilles pendant la Grande Guerre (Series of 20) 8. (1914-20)

Maurice Busset

hand-coloured woodcut

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Classification:

Print, Portfolio

Materials:

Paper, Ink

Physical Object Description:

Portfolio containing twenty woodcuts, including title page, mostly in colour, of the crewmen and battles of the French aircraft squadrons during the First World War; in cardboard inner wrapper with ox motif and marbled cover with hand-coloured, additional woodcut (Paris: 1920); edition 2/375. 1914-20. Majority of prints print signed on block, with some also dated. Each print signed, dated and titled in red pencil. Signed, dated numbered in black ink on inside of portfolio cover.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

50 x 33.5 cm

Accession Number:

1922,0708.47.1-21

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1922

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, 1919; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1922

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

World War One, Soldier, Death, Battle

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Maurice Busset

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