Sagittarius (about 1928)

Gérard Antoine Henri van der Stok

woodcut

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license (CC BY-NC-ND) Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

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Physical Object Description:

Naked archer standing in profile to right, his arrow ready in the arch, representing zodiacal sign Sagittarius; hunting dog next to him in the foreground, inscription below. Woodcut. Inscribed with title: "Sagittarius" and signed with monogram on block. Annotated in Dutch below image. Red stamp printed below (?).

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

48.3 x 31.6 cm

Accession Number:

1928,0310.70

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1928

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, 1919-28; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1928

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Sagittarius

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