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An Explorer

Print
1933 (made)
Artist/Maker
Golden Cockerel Press (publishers)
The Golden Cockerel Press (publisher)
Ravilious, Eric (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Wood engraving depicting a mountainous wintry scene to illustrate 'An Explorer' from 'Fifty-Four Conceits. A collection of epigrams and epitaphs serious and comic' by Martin Armstrong.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Illustration
Object type
Print
TitleAn Explorer (published title)
Materials and techniques
Wood engraving
Brief description
Wood engraving by Eric Ravilious to illustrate 'Fifty-Four Conceits' by Martin Armstrong. Great Britain, 1933.
Physical description
Wood engraving depicting a mountainous wintry scene to illustrate 'An Explorer' from 'Fifty-Four Conceits. A collection of epigrams and epitaphs serious and comic' by Martin Armstrong.
Subjects depicted
Snow
Snowflakes
Hills
Mountains
Night
Bibliographic reference
'The first book Ravilious illustrated in 1926 was Desert: A Legend by Martin Armstrong. 54 Conceits [by the same author] is a collection of his sardonic verses concerned principally with death and dying [...] Thr engravings are used in most cases to illustrate two or three verses. Ravilious provides an engraving with a strong connection to one of the verses (almost always the first one) and the title for that verse has been used as a working title for the engraving. [...] An Explorer 1933 The engraving is printed on page 19 and on page 38. AN EXPLORER 'On quaking swamps where tropic fevers burned, I fed my nightly fire, and thence returned: But from the kingdom I now explore Thraveller returneth nevermore.' Jeremy Greenwood, Ravilious Engravings, The Wood Lea Press, Great Britain, 2008, p.178-180
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.552-1972

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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