An Explorer
Print
1933 (made)
1933 (made)
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| Place of origin |
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
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| Object type | |
| Title | An 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Accession number | E.552-1972 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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