print
- Museum number
- 2019,7015.209
- Title
- Object: The Shadow of the Yews
- Description
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Three thick yew trees in a landscape with an infant below (left). 1903
Etching
- Production date
- 1903
- Dimensions
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Height: 227 millimetres (Plate mark)
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Height: 291 millimetres (Sheet measurement)
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Width: 356 millimetres (Plate mark)
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Width: 437 millimetres (Sheet measurement)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The line in the inscription: "Ghostly shapes may meet at noontide." is a quotation from William Wordsworth's Poem 'Lorton Vale Yew trees.'
This print appears to be related to Holroyd's 'Wordsworth's Yews' circa 1908, see: 1949,0411.627.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2019
- Acquisition notes
- John Christian purchased this print from Elizabeth Harvey-Lee. He retained the invoice dated 20.07.01 which provides the following information:
"Sir Charles Holroyd RE (1861-1917)
The Shadow of the Yews
CD. 168
Etching 1903."
Acquired by the British Museum unmounted, annotated on the sheet:
699300 which corresponds with the stock number on Elizabeth Harvey-Lee's invoice.
This print is no.130 in Elizabeth Harvey-Lee's catalougue: 'The Seductive Art: The British Passion for Etching 1850-1950' (2001).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2019,7015.209
