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Siesta (1925)

John Edgar Platt

colour woodcut

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Siesta (1925)
Siesta (1925)
Siesta (1925)

© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print

Physical Object Description:

Two barges with crew resting under shade of sails. 1925 Colour woodcut in the Japanese manner, predominantly in grey, blue-green, brown and pink. Signed, titled and numbered 49/100.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

23.3 x 32.9 cm

Accession Number:

1929,0209.6

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1929

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, 1925-29; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1929

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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John Edgar Platt
Siesta (1925)

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