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Flying Buttresses: P.84-1948

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Flying Buttresses
Id Quod Visum Placet

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gill, Eric
Printer: Golden Cockerel Press
Publisher: Gill, Eric

Entities

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1948-04) by Kenyon, Lord

Dating

Production date: AD 1926

Note

After a drawing of St. Pierre, Chartres, and Blériot's monoplane.

Proof of an illustration to face page 10 of Id Quod Visum Placet by the artist, printed by the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, for the author, Capel-y-ffin, Abergavenny, 1926.

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of Japanese paper
Plate Height 113 mm Width 70 mm
Sheet Height 305 mm Width 242 mm

Techniques used in production

Engraving

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.84-1948
Primary reference Number: 2469
Physick: 373
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 8 March 2024 Last processed: Friday 25 October 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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