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Voyage to Luggnagg: The Struldbrugs (from a series of eight colour etchings to Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels') (1950)

Peter László Péri

colour etching and drypoint, printed in black, two shades of green and red-brown

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Voyage to Luggnagg: The Struldbrugs (from a series of eight colour etchings to Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels') (1950)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print

Materials:

Ink, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Plate 7 from the series Gulliver's Travels: wizened old figure sitting against wall in corridor accompanied by young child with Gulliver(?) partially seen to left, his shadow showing torment; 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, two shades of green and red-brown. Signed, dated, numbered and annotated: "7"

Technique:

Etching, Drypoint

Dimensions:

42.8 x 27.9 cm

Accession Number:

1953,0518.11

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 Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1953

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