print
- Museum number
- 2019,7015.175
- Title
- Object: Clouds
- Description
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Landscape, with a figure asleep in a field next to a pool in foreground at right, and two other figures seen at left; meandering path leading across a forest at centre; crater surrounded by rocks in background; cloudy sky; proof illustration to an unidentified publication; after James Joshua Guthrie.
Etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
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Height: 187 millimetres (Plate mark measurement)
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Height: 266 millimetres (Sheet measurement)
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Width: 153 millimetres (Plate mark measurement)
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Width: 210 millimetres (Sheet measurement)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For two other impressions of this print, see: 1921.1109.9 and 2019.7015.162.
For further commentary see:
John Christian (ed), 'The Last Romantics', Barbican Art Gallery, 1989, No. 349.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2019
- Acquisition notes
- John Christian purchased the print from Abbott & Holder. A label on the back provides the following information:
"Abbott and Holder
James J. Guthrie (1874-1952)
'Clouds'. Etching
Signed and inscribed beneath the mount."
Inscribed on the back of the mount: "Sold Christian 029682" and "Guthrie"
Christian retained the invoice No: 029681, dated 06.08.14, which provides the stock number 91309.
Christian's records include six sheets of notes made from this collection using his own descriptions and notes from the British Museum and V&A.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2019,7015.175