- Title:
- Crested Porcupines
- Object name(s):
- Prints; Two crested porcupines a flower? and a slice of melon?
- Brief description:
- Two crested porcupines; foreground, a slice of melon? and a porcupine eating a piece of fruit; middleground, a porcupine and a flower? / pineapple? Printed in black, purple-black, yellow ochre, orange and cream
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 510
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 635
- Inscription content:
- (pencil, lower left margin) 1/20 (Blue Edition), (pencil, lower centre margin) ''Crested Porcupines'', (pencil, lower right margin) James TA Osborne, [artist's signature] RE
- Material:
- Colour woodcut / linocut on cream Japanese paper
- Object name:
- Prints; Two crested porcupines a flower? and a slice of melon?
- Object number:
- PR1652
- Object production date:
- 1950
- Date - association:
- C
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1950
- Date - latest:
- 1975
- 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
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0574fafe-28e3-3afd-9764-27e7d7dcf50a, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC
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