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Title:
The Rare Bittern of the Fens
Object name(s):
Prints; A bittern, bird
Brief description:
A large bittern. Printed in three colours
Collection:
Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
Acquisition date:
1965-1974
Acquisition funding source:
Gulbenkian Foundation
Acquisition method:
Purchase
Dimension:
Width
Dimension value:
457
Dimension:
Height
Dimension value:
711
Inscription content:
(pencil, lower left margin) 6/30 1962, (pencil, lower right margin) The Rare Bittern of the Fens, (pencil, lower right margin) / J.T.A. Osborne RE [artist\'s signature]
Material:
Colour wood engraving on white paper
Object name:
Prints; A bittern, bird
Object number:
PR831
Object production date:
1962
Date - earliest / single:
1962
Date - latest:
1962
Object production person:
James Thomas Armour Osborne
Person's association:
Artist/Maker
Person's biographical note:
Printmaker, painter and illustrator. Studied at Hastings School of Art, under Malcolm Osborne (1880-1963) at the Royal College of Art, 1925-30, and at the British School at Rome, 1930. A founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists he produced etchings, woodcuts and wood engravings of birds and animals which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1936. He was a brother-in-law to Lambert Gapper, Keeper of Aberystwyth University College Collections between 1934 and 1962
Person's birth date:
1907
Person's death date:
1979
Person's forenames:
James Thomas Armour
Person's place of birth:
UK, England, Sussex, Ninfield
Person's surname:
Osborne
Object production place:
UK
Responsible department/section:
Prints
Text:
Number 6 of an edition of 30
Text reason:
Collections online text

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/46a9c915-bc61-3e81-9641-cafbdfd965b7

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/46a9c915-bc61-3e81-9641-cafbdfd965b7, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC

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