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George John Pinwell
1842-1875
The old couple and the old clock / GJP [monogram] ; Dalziel sc.
[London : s.n., 1866?]
wood engraving
image: 166 x 126 mm; sheet: 196 x 154 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1069
Notes
Block signed with artist's monogram.
Library's copy mounted on off-white paper.
Proof on India paper of a wood engraving by Dalziel after an illustration by G.J. Pinwell for a poem of the same title published in: A round of days described in original poems. London : George Routledge and Sons, 1866, p. 86.
Library's copy mounted on off-white paper.
Proof on India paper of a wood engraving by Dalziel after an illustration by G.J. Pinwell for a poem of the same title published in: A round of days described in original poems. London : George Routledge and Sons, 1866, p. 86.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustration shows an elderly man standing on a chair in the corner of a room tending to the face of a grandfather clock while his wife holds the chair to steady it and a cat sitting on the floor at left looks on.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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