The Waterwitch (circa 1940-43)

Sylvan G. Boxsius

colour woodcut in the Japanese manner, in grey, beige, yellow, brown, blue, red and black

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license The Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Physical Object Description:

Fishing boat at Looe, Cornwall, seagulls descending. c.1940-45 Colour woodcut in the Japanese manner, in grey, beige, yellow, brown, blue, red and black. Signed and titled.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

27 x 26.1 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.199

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1943

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by A. M. Hind (1880-1957) for the Contemporary Art Society, with the Prints and Drawings Fund, 1943; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1943

Relationship:

Arthur Mayger 'A. M.' Hind Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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