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Feigned Simplicity

Print
1986 (printed)
Artist/Maker

Series: Each signed in pencil E.N. Ellis. Inscribed in pencil with title and numbered 32/75. Printed on original Basingwerk Parchment and with a folded sheet of notes written by the artist. Combined in a green cloth bound box.

Techniques: Wood engravings


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleFeigned Simplicity
Brief description
Five wood engravings on the theme of The Maxims of the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, British.
Physical description
Series: Each signed in pencil E.N. Ellis. Inscribed in pencil with title and numbered 32/75. Printed on original Basingwerk Parchment and with a folded sheet of notes written by the artist. Combined in a green cloth bound box.

Techniques: Wood engravings
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 40.7cm
  • Size of sheet width: 35.7cm
Production
Series Date: 1983-1985, printed in 1986.
Bibliographic references
  • Literature: Another impression of E.473 in Crafts No.89, November/December 1987, pp.40-41 (illus.) McCue, J. A Complex Pattern in Bankside Bulletin [The Journal of the Friends of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers], 1993, No.1 pp.3-4.
  • Series: Literature: Another impression of E.473 in Crafts No.89, November/December 1987, pp.40-41 (illus.) McCue, J. A Complex Pattern in Bankside Bulletin [The Journal of the Friends of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers], 1993, No.1 pp.3-4.
Collection
Accession number
E.475-1988

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Record createdNovember 24, 2008
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