print;
album;
bookplate;
christmas-card
- Museum number
- 2016,7068.1.1-84
- Description
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Album compiled by the artist of his wood-engravings; the subjects including genre scenes, portraits, views of towns, harbour and coastal scenes and landscapes in England and Scotland, Scilly Isles, Spain, France, Austria and Channel Islands, with Guy Malet's bookplate on the first page, bound in a thin board with brown paper covers; with Malet's inscriptions throughout.
Wood-engravings
- Production date
- 1930-1950 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 500 millimetres (each page)
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Height: 300 millimetres (largest approx.)
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Height: 25 millimetres (smallest approx.)
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Width: 328 millimetres (each page)
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Width: 230 millimetres (largest approx.)
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Width: 86 millimetres (smallest approx.)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 1) Book-plate with artist's palette and masks, lettered 'GUY MALET/ HIS BOOK' signed with a woodcutter's knife lower right and dated 'MCML'
2) 'Highland Glen'
3) 'Mont St Michel'
4) 'Taormina and Mt Etna'
5) 'Farm in the Scillies'
6) 'Santillana del Mar' (Romanesque Church)
7) 'Spanish Farm' (Altamira, near Santillana)
8) 'Victorian Parlour'
9) 'Irish Village'
10) 'Deutsches Museum, Munich'
11) 'Dinan'
12) 'Farm near Burwash'
13) 'Torremolinos'
14) and 15) small vignettes: church and a view of houses
16) 'Salzburg'
17) houses
18) 'Indian Girl'
19) 'Vicolo'
20) 'Sark'
21) coastal scene
22) '"New Dawn" at Sark harbour'
23) coastal scene with a yacht
24) 'Fishing Port San Sebastian'
25) 'Street in Spain'
26) 'Old Hastings' and lower right: 'Reproduction rights for calendar/ and Xmas cards sold/ G. Delgado and Co.'
27) 'English Garden Munich'
28) 'A Surrey Landscape' and underneath '(So. Godstone Surrey)'
29) 'San Sebastian from M. Igueldo'
30) Vignette with a church
31) 'Dieppe'
32 'Inner Harbour, Dieppe'
33) 'The Lake'
34) 'Richmond Castle, Yorks'
35), 36) 37) 38) 39) and 40) small designs, some for Christmas cards
41) 'A Sussex Lane'
42) 'Rye Harbour'
43) 'Grand Canary'
44) 'Dieppe Plage'
45) 'A Winter Walk' and 'Sold Xmas card/ repro rights to / Redfern Publ'
46) 'Creux Harbour Sark'
47) 'Canary L'scape'
48) 'Havre Gosselin - Sark'
49) 'Welsh Landscape'
50) 'Sark Girl'
51) 'Sark Boy'
52) 'Sark Cottages'
53) 'Essex Cottages' '(Ickleston, Gt Chesterford Essex)'
54) 'Gateway' 'Block rights sold / Warren Johns 2/47/A few prints left in my possession'
55) 'Hertfordshire Farm'
56) 'Cottage in the Wood' 'Xmas card 1935'
57) 'St Peterport, Guernsey'
58) 'Sunbathers'
59) 'Old Salts'
60) 'Sussex Church' '(Worth)'
61) 'Seagulls' '(1st State)' 'Raven Press Xmas card rights/ Xmas Card 1938 (2nd state)
62) 'Knaresboro' '
63) 'Salzburg'
64) 'Footbridge'
65) 'Warwickshire Farm'
66) 'Austrian Peasant (Salzburger)'
67) 'Cyclamen'
68) 'A Cotswold Farm (Crawley, Glos)'
69) 'In the Chilterns (av. Tring)'
70) 'Berkshire Farm (E.Hendred)'
71) 'Hertfordshire Village'
72) 'Road to the Farm'
73) 'Gate to the Downs'
74) Figure tending vegetables in a walled garden, haystacks behind
75) 'Old Sarkee'
76) 'Sleeping boy' printed in reddish brown
77) Landscape with trees and a haystack
78) Landscape with large tree in foreground and two horses, 'D.M.Malet' on scroll
79) Trees, printed in reddish brown
80) Gate with trees either side
81) 'Thro' the Trees' pencilled along left edge 'Sold outright Redfern Publ. Co. 1934'
82) 'Sussex Downs'
83) 'Morthoe' '(The Village, Morthoe)'
84) 'Boats on the foreshore' printed in reddish-brown
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2016
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2016,7068.1.1-84
