Moule II
Drawing
2005 (made)
2005 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
The sculptor Edward Allington often uses sheets from old ledgers as drawing paper. Here the drawn forms - two halves of a mould and a cast form - are given a powerful sense of three-dimensional presence with hatching and deep shadows. However, the columns of figures and other mundane details on the ledger paper call attention to the illusion of pictorial depth.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Moule II (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, bodycolour, brush and ink |
| Brief description | Drawing, Moule II by Edward Allington, ink and 19th century ruled paper, 2005 |
| Physical description | Drawing on a sheet of ruled paper taken from a nineteenth-century ledger, headed 'Davy Place, Norwich' and dated 1884. The drawing, covering the original writing on the sheet, shows two standing forms, the two halves of a mould. At the bottom of the sheet lies a curving, tubular form ending in a spiral, which has presumably been cast from the mould. These three objects are strongly modelled and cast deep shadows. There is a red stamp in the bottom right-hand corner with the letters E.T.A. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'EA 05' (Inscribed in bottom left-hand corner) |
| Object history | The drawing is part of the '40 Artists - 40 Drawings' series acquired as a group in 2007. |
| Summary | The sculptor Edward Allington often uses sheets from old ledgers as drawing paper. Here the drawn forms - two halves of a mould and a cast form - are given a powerful sense of three-dimensional presence with hatching and deep shadows. However, the columns of figures and other mundane details on the ledger paper call attention to the illusion of pictorial depth. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.2566-2007 |
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| Record created | July 10, 2007 |
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