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The Catastrophe

Drawing
Artist/Maker

Illustration with a process engraved page of text, mounted on card. In a folio, quarter-bound in leather, blind tooled, marbled boards, with the main title in gold on the cover.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe Catastrophe (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and water-colour heightened with white on toned paper, quarter-bound in leather
Brief description
Illustration (1 of 8), with a process engraved page of text, in a folio, quarter-bound in leather. Made to accompany 'Indiana. A Story Suggested by Marcailhou’s Indian Waltz'.
Physical description
Illustration with a process engraved page of text, mounted on card. In a folio, quarter-bound in leather, blind tooled, marbled boards, with the main title in gold on the cover.
Dimensions
  • Average size of sheets in series height: 18.1cm
  • Average size of sheets in series width: 13.3cm
  • Size in folio height: 45.7cm
  • Size in folio width: 41.3cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Copy number
4 of 8
Marks and inscriptions
  • '1' to '8' (The illustrations numbered)
  • (Numbers 2 to 8 each inscribed in ink with title)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Joan Curzon-Howe-Herrick
Object history
This illustration was made to accompany Indiana. A Story Suggested by Marcailhou’s Indian Waltz..
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.1365-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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