Shell Guide to Dorset
Drawing
c.1936 (published)
c.1936 (published)
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Rough drawing for illustrations to The Shell Guide to Dorset. The objects represented are examples of Kimmeridge coal money: bobbin-like objects with devices on their flat round ends. Two sheets of drawings (Circ.335 and 335A-1975) are mounted in a fold of cream paper.
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Title | Shell Guide to Dorset (published title) |
Materials and techniques | Drawing in brown crayon on yellow transparent paper |
Brief description | Sketches for illustrations to the Shell Guide to Dorset; brown crayon on transparent yellow paper, by Paul Nash, c.1936 |
Physical description | Rough drawing for illustrations to The Shell Guide to Dorset. The objects represented are examples of Kimmeridge coal money: bobbin-like objects with devices on their flat round ends. Two sheets of drawings (Circ.335 and 335A-1975) are mounted in a fold of cream paper. |
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Credit line | The Paul Nash Trust |
Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1975 |
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Accession number | CIRC.335-1975 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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