print
- Museum number
- 1927,1210.28
- Title
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Object: The Longing
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Series: Maj (May)
- Description
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Illustration to the beginning of the second section of Macha's poem 'Maj' ('May'); slender, stooping figure turns face to the starlit sky, hands pressed to ears. 1911
Wood-engraving, printed on oriental tissue
- Production date
- 1911
- Dimensions
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Height: 271 millimetres
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Width: 228 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This illustration refers to the beginning of the second section of 'Maj' ('May', 1836), which describes a star falling into the infinite. According to Petr Wittlich, it is modelled on Frantisek Bilek's 'Wonderment', a work influenced by Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019, 11 April - 18 July, London, BM, G90a, 'Symbolist Prints'
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1927,1210.28