- 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
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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