print
- Museum number
- 2004,0602.152
- Title
- Object: Riponelli: a village in Lemnos
- Description
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Angular abstraction of buildings. 1917
Woodcut printed in black, grey and violet on grey paper
- Production date
- 1917
- Dimensions
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Height: 102 millimetres (block)
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Height: 247 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 160 millimetres
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Width: 76 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1924,0209.145 for a version printed in a different colour scheme - using light and dark grey and black on cream paper.
Text from 'Living with art: The Alexander Walker collection' (British Museum Press, 2020):
Between 1913 and 1921 Wadsworth made around fifty subjects in woodcut. This example was made while he was serving with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve between 1914 and 1917 as an intelligence officer in Mudros (Moudros) on the island of Lemnos in the Aegean. It is known to have been printed in eight colour variants; the British Museum also has an impression in greys and black on cream paper (1924,0209.145).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2017 10 Feb-19 May, San Diego, University of San Diego, British Modern Prints from the British Museum: from the Great War to the Grosvenor School
- Acquisition date
- 2004
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by Alexander Walker from the Fine Art Society, London on 22/11/99 for £3,250.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2004,0602.152