Title
Towers of San Gimignano
1928
Artist
No image
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Details
- Date
- 1928
- Media category
- Materials used
- wood engraving, printed in black ink on Abbey Mills paper
- Edition
- 10/30
- Dimensions
- 3.4 x 3.4 cm blockmark (irreg.); 28.8 x 22.1 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pen and black ink "Raymond McGrath, 28."
- Credit
- Gift of Lynne Frolich 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 326.2010
- Artist information
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Raymond McGrath
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About
During his time at Cambridge, McGrath's visits to Italy and Spain provided fresh inspiration. This engraving was published as a 'decoration' for his poem 'The fair lady of San Gimignano' under the Spanish spelling of his name 'Ramon Majraz’.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Roger Arthur Butler, Raymond McGrath prints: the catalogue, Armadale, 1979, (illus.). cat.no. 62
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Lloyd Rees in Europe, ‘The drawings: 1953’, pp 20-48, Sydney, 2002, 44 (illus.).
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Editor Unknown, Lady Clare magazine [Easter term], Cambridge, 1928, 108 (illus.). Illustration for 'The fair lady of San Gimignano' by Ramon Majraz [Raymond McGrath]
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