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An image of Woodblock for 'Aboriginal design of fish and lizard' by Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)

Title
Woodblock for 'Aboriginal design of fish and lizard'
Year
(circa 1945)
Media category
Printing blocks & plates
Materials used
four end-grain Pacific mable blocks, butt-jointed
Dimensions

18.8 x 19.2cm block

Signature & date
Signed in block to print l.l., incised ".M.P". Not dated.
Credit
Bequest of W.G. Preston the artist's widower 1977
Accession number
220.1977
Copyright
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (3)

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 215 (illus.). see entry for cat.no. 255

Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 94. cat.no. B.3

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 229 (colour illus.). see entry for cat.no. 255