Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- (The old mill, Bibury Court Farm, Bibury)
- Other titles:
- Stone bridge and houses
- Year
- circa 1916
- Media category
- Materials used
- drypoint, printed in black ink with plate tone on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
-
17.5 x 12.5cm plate mark; 21.3 x 17.7cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., pencil "Margaret R Preston". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1964
- Accession number
- DA43.1964
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Bibury is is a small village in Gloucestershire, England, and is perhaps the quintessential Cotswold village.
The artist and craftsman William Morris called Bibury "the most beautiful village in England", at the sight of the village's charm, with its honey-coloured 17th century stone cottages with their steep pitched roofs.
These cottages once provided housing for weavers who supplied cloth for fulling at nearby Arlington Mill. The mill now houses a folk and agricultural museum, containing a room dedicated to William Morris.
- Bibliography (4)
-
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 77 (colour illus.). cat.no. 3
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 66 (colour illus.). cat.no. 3
Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 16 (illus.), 86. cat.no. P.2 Note that the title of this print in this publication is "(Stone bridge and houses)".
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston, Sydney, 2005, 258, 259 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
-
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Dec 1985–09 Feb 1986.
Margaret Preston retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006.
