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Title:
Saghegy
Object name(s):
Prints; Landscape at Saghegy with fields, trees and a hill with a plateau
Brief description:
Landscape at Saghegy, Hungary?; foreground, open field; middleground, four trees, hedgerow and twin church? towers; background, a hill with a plateau. Line etching with some tone created by hatching
Collection:
Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
Acquisition date:
1925
Acquisition method:
Purchase
Dimension:
Width
Dimension value:
202
Dimension:
Height
Dimension value:
76
Inscription content:
(pencil, lower left margin) SAGHEGY., (pencil, lower right margin) Gwen Davies [artist\'s signature], (pencil lower margin) Ritton[?]
Material:
Etching in black on thin Japanese paper
Object name:
Prints; Landscape at Saghegy with fields, trees and a hill with a plateau
Object number:
PR541
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/64f84e11-36d2-37a0-b7b9-9f2e880293f5

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/64f84e11-36d2-37a0-b7b9-9f2e880293f5, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC

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