Voyage to Laputa: The flying island (from a series of eight etchings of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels') (1950)

Peter László Péri

colour etching and drypoint, printed in black and green ink

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Voyage to Laputa: The flying island (from a series of eight etchings of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels') (1950)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Materials:

Ink, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Plate 4: Gulliver, bottom right on rock, reaching out to catch winch lowered from bottom tier of flying island where figures are on each level; from a series of eight colour etchings to Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'; edition 2/75, presented in sheet with handwritten titles. 1950 Colour etching and drypoint, printed in black and green ink. Signed, dated, numbered and annotated: "4."

Technique:

Etching, Drypoint

Dimensions:

42.8 x 28.1 cm

Accession Number:

1953,0518.8

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1953

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by W. A. Evill (1890 -1963) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1952; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1953

Relationship:

Wilfrid Ariel 'W. A.' Evill Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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