Under the Trees
Wood Block
1870 (made)
1870 (made)
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Wood block with a transfer of an illustration.
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Title | Under the Trees (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Photocopy transferred onto an uncut box-wood block |
Brief description | 'Under the Trees'. Photocopy on a wood block of an original drawing for Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Illustration by Sir Luke Fildes for part 1, facing page 20, 1870. |
Physical description | Wood block with a transfer of an illustration. |
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Gallery label | Photography began to be used to transfer original drawings on to the wood block after the 1860s.
Printmaking Techniques Gallery, Henry Cole Wing(1983) |
Credit line | Bequeathed by Sir Paul Fildes, O.B.E., F.R.S. in memory of his father, the Artist |
Production | Studies related to this illustration and a proof of the wood-engraving are E.782, 783-1971 and E.918-1971. See notes to E.781-790-1971 and E.917-923-1971. |
Literary reference | 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' by Charles Dickens |
Bibliographic reference | Taken from departmental Micromedia catalogue. |
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Accession number | E.937-1971 |
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Record created | August 17, 2005 |
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