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Arrangement of Jugs

Print
1938 (published)
Artist/Maker
Contemporary Lithographs (publishers)
The Curwen Press (printers)
Hodgkins, Frances (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Colour lithograph depicting an abstract of eight jugs

Object details

Categories
Prints
Tableware & Cutlery
Woman Artist
Object type
print
TitleArrangement of Jugs (published title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph print
Paper
Printing Ink
Colour Lithograph
Brief description
Lithograph, Arrangement of Jugs, by Frances Hodgkins, published by Contemporary Lithographs Ltd, 1938
Physical description
Colour lithograph depicting an abstract of eight jugs
Dimensions
  • Height: 508mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1939)
  • Width: 660mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1939)
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Frances Hodgkins' (Signed in pencil, below the print, right.)
  • 'Published by Contemporary Lithographs Ltd, London' (Printed below the print, left.)
Object history
Frances Hodgkin's only surviving print. It was one of the fifteen prints in the second series, launched in March 1938 by Contemporary Lithographs Ltd, a project founded in 1936 by Robert Wellington and John Piper, to provide the wide public reasonably priced artwork.
Associated object
CIRC.205-1938 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic references
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1939
  • Buchanan, Iain; Dunn, Michael and Eastmond, Elizabeth, Frances Hodgkins: Paintings and Drawings, (Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1994), pp.70, 150-1, colour illus.
  • McCormick, E. H., Portrait of Frances Hodgkins, (Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1981), p.123, illus.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.146-1939

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
Record URL
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