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'Y' - Yellow-hammer (Illustration to 'An Alphabet of British Birds') (1934-5)

Máire Littledale

wood-engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

'Y' - Yellow-hammer (Illustration to 'An Alphabet of British Birds') (1934-5)

Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Physical Object Description:

'Y' - yellow-hammer; wood-engraved illustration to 'An Alphabet of British Birds'. c.1936. Signed with initials on block.

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

5.1 x 8.9 cm

Accession Number:

1936,0613.126

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1936

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted by the artist to the Prints and Drawings Fund of the Contemporary Art Society, 1935; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1936

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London Máire Littledale

Subject:

Birds

All rights reserved. Any further use will need to be cleared with the rights holder. Permission granted to reproduce for personal and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is prohibited. The collection that owns this artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.

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Artist Bio

Máire Littledale
'Y' - Yellow-hammer (Illustration to 'An Alphabet of British Birds') (1934-5)

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