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- Title:
The Lost Anchor
- Additional Title(s):
The Lost Anchor, a Wood Engraving by Robert Gibbings with a Foreword by the Artist. The Woodcut Society, Kansas City.
- Date:
- 1936
- Medium:
- Wood-engraving on medium, smooth, cream laid paper in contemporary mount of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cover and forward by the artist
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 x 11 9/16 inches (35.6 x 29.3 cm), Image: 9 x 8 9/16 inches (22.9 x 21.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "23/200"
Lettered, on cover of the mount, center: "THE LOST ANCHOR | A WOOD ENGRAVING BY | ROBERT GIBBINGS | WITH | A FOREWORD BY THE ARTIST | (design with initials R G) | THE WOODCUT SOCIETY | KANSAS CITY | 1936"; lettered, on inside of cover of the mount, center: "(forward written by the artist)"; lettered, lower right inside image: "R.G."; lettered, on back of mount, center: "THE LOST ANCHOR | AN ORIGINAL ENGRAVING BY | ROBERT GIBBINGS | IS PUBLISHED IN AN EDITION | OF TWO HUNDRED COPIES | EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEMBERS OF THE WOODCUT SOCEITY | This is Number 23 | COPYRIGHT 1936 BY THE WOODCUT SOCEITY | 1234 BOARD OF TRADE KANSAS CITY | MISSOURI"
Signed in graphite, lower right: "RobertJGibbings"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2008.5.5
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- anchor | animal art | coral | designs | fish | ocean | seaweed
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:55840
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