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Artist/Maker	Ravilious, Eric (artist)
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Wood engraving depicting a picturesque village with a church and a cluster of simple houses surrounded by trees.

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Categories	Illustration Prints
Object type	Print
Title	The Village
Brief description	Wood engraving by Eric Ravilious, illustration proof for the cover of 'The Village', a journal published by the National Council of Social Service. Great Britain, 1933.
Physical description	Wood engraving depicting a picturesque village with a church and a cluster of simple houses surrounded by trees.
Dimensions	Height: 8.2cm Width: 8.2cm
Bibliographic references	Reproduced in Robert Harling's 'Notes on the wood-engravings of Eric Ravilious', London, 1946, p.38. 'The National Council for Social Service started publishing a 'quarterly news sheet' entitled The Village Hall. For the fourth issue, published in January 1933, it was decided to change its name to The Village and Ravilious was commissioned to engrave the decoration shown here: it appears on the cover and title page.' Jeremy Greenwood, Ravilious Engravings, The Wood Lea Press, Great Britain, 2008, p.156-169
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.577-1972

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1009753/the-village-print-ravilious-eric/

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