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Saw-whet owl, No.1 (circa 1928)

Henry Emerson Tuttle

drypoint

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Saw-whet owl, No.1 (circa 1928)

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

Details

Materials:

Print

Physical Object Description:

Small bird perched on thin branch in profile to left. c.1928 Drypoint. Signed, titled and annotated: "First trial proof not for sale".

Technique:

Drypoint

Dimensions:

15 x 19.8 cm

Accession Number:

1928,0310.61

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:

Birds

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Henry Emerson Tuttle
Saw-whet owl, No.1 (circa 1928)

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