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Garden Pond

Print
1922 (printed), 1922 (published)
Artist/Maker

Wood engraving on paper of a pond with over hanging trees and foliage. In the top right corner of the image there is a small female figure.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGarden Pond (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
wood engraving on paper
Brief description
'Garden Pond', book illustration by Paul Nash (1889-1946), 1922.
Physical description
Wood engraving on paper of a pond with over hanging trees and foliage. In the top right corner of the image there is a small female figure.
Production typeLimited edition
Marks and inscriptions
Gallery label
Display 'Into the Woods: Trees in Illustration'; Gallery 102; June 2017 to the end of January 2018 Paul Nash (1889-1946) Plates (6) from 'Places', by Paul Nash, published by William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1922 1921-22 Recovering from a severe nervous breakdown in 1921, Nash made seven wood-engravings for 'Places', a volume of his own prose poems. Each print is a 'visual equivalent' for the text, and depicts a location which had a significance for the artist. These sombre scenes are based on real landscapes, but the compositions emphasise the symbolic role of trees as guardians and as stand-ins for human figures. Wood-engravings Museum nos. E.1456 to E.1461-1922(2017)
Object history
This print is plate four of seven by Paul Nash for the book Places, London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1922. 22p, ill. The book was published in two editions in December 1922. An initial edition of 50 was produced directly from the wood blocks and a further edition of 210 copies was reproduced from impressions of the wood blocks.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.1456-1922

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Record createdOctober 18, 2006
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