print
- Museum number
- 1921,0105.1
- Title
- Object: Xerxes lashes the Hellespont
- Description
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A section of a purported Greek vase, with Xerxes sitting in his chariot while his servant beats the sea with a whip; first progress proof printed from the line block. c. 1897
Colour metalcut
- Production date
- 1897 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres
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Width: 270 millimetres (largest image dimensions)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of 11 'experiments in colour printing from metal blocks by Charles H Mackie made about 1897 before his woodcuts in colours' (according to the register entry by A.E.Popham which is derived from a letter by the donor which accompanies the series). This is one of six proof impressions of this design. All are tongue-in-cheek recreations of non-existent Greek vases.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1921
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1921,0105.1
