Materials:
Ink, Paper
Physical Object Description:
Plate 1: giant figure of Gulliver pinned to ground in landscape, pleading with tiny Lilliputian figures; 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, yellow-ochre and red-brown ink. Signed, dated, numbered and annotated: "1."
Technique:
Etching, Drypoint
Dimensions:
28 x 42.9 cm
Accession Number:
1953,0518.5
Credit:
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1953
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