Device for the Cloanthus Press
Raverat, Gwendolen
(Printmaker)
Height: 65 mm
Width: 82 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1974-12)
by
Gurney, Sophie and Hambro, Elisabeth
Production date: AD 1933
Used as a Christmas card by Michael Clapham, Storey's End, Cambridge, & as his device for at least three books: Two Medieval Lyrics, ed. J. Saltmarsh (1993), Letters to Leigh Hunt from his Son Vincent (1934) & The Classical Spirit, bt G.M. Sargeaunt (1936).
Support composed of paper
Accession number: P.776-1974
Primary reference Number: 7717
Selborne/Newman: 272
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Device for the Cloanthus Press"
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Accession Number: GR.25a-k.1980
Accession Number: P.115-1945
Accession Number: P.268-1994
Accession Number: C.120B-1961
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