Object: The Cartshed

Title:

The Cartshed

Object name(s):

Prints; A thatched shed, a cart, a work bench, a ladder, a cockerel and two chickens

Brief description:

Scene in Külsövat, Hungary? A thatched outbuilding, a cart, a work bench, a ladder, planks, logs, a cockerel and two chickens. Text on image, side of cart, \'Külsövat\'. Line etching with some tone created by parallel lines

Collection:

Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery

Acquisition date:

1984

Acquisition method:

Gift

Dimension:

Width

Dimension value:

150

Dimension:

Height

Dimension value:

123

Inscription content:

(pencil, lower left margin) THE CARTSHED, (pencil, lower right margin) Gwenhwyfar - [artist\'s signature]

Material:

Etching in black on thin cream proofing paper

Object name:

Prints; A thatched shed, a cart, a work bench, a ladder, a cockerel and two chickens

Object number:

PR968

Object production date:

1920

Date - earliest / single:

1920

Date - latest:

1935

Object production person:

Gwenhwyfar Davies

Person's association:

Artist/Maker

Person's biographical note:

Painter and printmaker. Taught printmaking at the School of Arts and Crafts, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1929-59. Travelled in Italy and Hungary. Greatly influenced by the work of Frederick Charles Richards (1878-1932), she produced etchings of landscapes and townscapes in an economical line

Person's birth date:

1894

Person's death date:

1988

Person's forenames:

Gwenhwyfar

Person's place of birth:

UK, Wales

Person's surname:

Davies

Owner:

The artist

Organisation's association:

Object source

Responsible department/section:

Prints

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/1a016190-2291-3694-8825-610bf4aebbcc

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/1a016190-2291-3694-8825-610bf4aebbcc, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC

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