print;
bookplate
- Museum number
- 1950,0520.390.9026
- Description
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Bookplate for Charles Holme; heron with two chicks, standing in a nest of reeds.
Woodcut printed in yellow and black from two blocks
- Production date
- 1918-1919 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 126 millimetres
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Width: 64 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Marcehal suggests that the design may contain a pun on 'holm', a small island in a river.
Lit.: Dominique Marechal, 'Collectie Frank Brangwyn Catalogue' (Brugge Stedelijke Museum, 1987), p. 274. Hesketh Hubbard and Eden Philpotts, 'Bookplates by Frank Brangwyn R.A.' (The Morland Press, London, 1920), pl. 66. Walter Shaw Sparrow, 'Prints and drawings by Frank Brangwyn R.A.' (London, 1919), p. 81. Libby Horner, unpublished catalogue of Frank Brangwyn X628. Martin Hopkinson, 'Ex Libris, the art of bookplates', BM 2011, p.88.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1950,0520.390.9026