Accession number
PML 196071.12
Published
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1882?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Print appears to be metal relief or a combination of wood and metal.
Design for the illustrated front boards of the children's book Jumbo's picture book of natural history, published in 1883 by George Routledge, with illustrations by F. Specht. This impression probably an untrimmed proof or trial impression.
Artist's signature at lower left partially missing; remaining letters read: [...ar?]e del.
Printed on yellow paper in blue, red, yellow, and black.
Library's copy annotated in ink at foot: Electro of feature cut down & altered Rest all new -- New March 1882; numbered "No 4" at upper right.
Design for the illustrated front boards of the children's book Jumbo's picture book of natural history, published in 1883 by George Routledge, with illustrations by F. Specht. This impression probably an untrimmed proof or trial impression.
Artist's signature at lower left partially missing; remaining letters read: [...ar?]e del.
Printed on yellow paper in blue, red, yellow, and black.
Library's copy annotated in ink at foot: Electro of feature cut down & altered Rest all new -- New March 1882; numbered "No 4" at upper right.
Description
1 print : col. relief ; image: 360 x 270 mm; sheet: 435 x 345 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an elephant bearing a striped howdah occupied by a woman with a group of children; another woman accompanied by three more children stands gesturing to the elephant's back while two keepers supervise the animal and a third woman sits in a chair in the foreground of the design.
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