drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1962,0809.1.29
- Description
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Design for the book cover of Charles Rickett's "Beyond the Threshold" (Curwen Press, 1929); grid-like pattern of horizontal and vertical lines, with decorative arabesques. 1929
Pen and ink with graphite, touched with white bodycolour
- Production date
- 1929
- Dimensions
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Height: 265 millimetres
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Width: 175 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From an album of 46 drawings by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, containing designs for book covers and illustrations, and architectural studies.
We are grateful to Paul van Capelleveen (email September 2020) who pointed out that this is a study for Charles Rickett's book cover (under pseudonym Jean Paul Raymond) "Beyond the Threshhold" published privately by the Curwen Press in 1929.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Beyond the Threshhold
- Acquisition date
- 1962
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1962,0809.1.29
