Design for stage scene (1907)

Edward Gordon Craig

wood-engraving, on tissue paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Materials:

Tissue paper

Physical Object Description:

Design for stage scene: light streaming through curtain; 1923 restrike. 1907 Wood-engraving, on tissue paper. Signed with monogram on block. Signed with initials, annotated with date of printing, dated, and annotated: "S.2. Only 150 copies printed. copy 31" and "5".

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

7.1 x 7.1 cm

Accession Number:

1928,0310.12

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1927

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, 1919-27; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1927

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Theatres

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