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New England Woods (Illustration for Ananda K Coomaraswamy's Three Poems) (1920)

Eric Rowton Gill

woodcut, on tissue paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

New England Woods (Illustration for Ananda K Coomaraswamy's Three Poems) (1920)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND) Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Physical Object Description:

Nude female amid trees; proof of illustration on p.2 of 'Three Poems' by Ananda K Coomaraswamy, printed by the St Dominic's Press, Ditchling, Sussex, for private distribution, 1920
Woodcut, on tissue paper. Signed.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

9.4 x 5.7 cm

Accession Number:

1922,0708.31

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1922

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, 1920-22; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1922

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Artist Bio

Eric Rowton Gill
New England Woods (Illustration for Ananda K Coomaraswamy's Three Poems) (1920)

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