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The curse (Illustration to Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner series, plate 5) (1929)

David Jones

engraving, printed in blue-black

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

The curse (Illustration to Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner series, plate 5) (1929)

© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Physical Object Description:

The curse: people dying aboard ship, one standing with dead albatross around his neck; proof of plate 5 of Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner'. Engraving, 1929. Signed, dated, titled, annotated: "5th Illustn" and numbered 21/30.

Technique:

Engraving

Dimensions:

17.7 x 13.6 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.116.6

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by A. M. Hind (1880-1957) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1942; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

Relationship:

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

Subject:

Death

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David Jones
The curse (Illustration to Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner series, plate 5) (1929)

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